Rhetorical Essay - Energy Policy

Introduction

In June 2001 President Bush (R) proposed overhauling the nation's energy policy. Driven by the widespread concern over energy shortages and rolling blackouts in California during the past year--and the potential for similar problems throughout the country--the Bush administration unveiled a series of measures that it believed would stabilize the nation's energy supply and stave off future crises. However, the proposals have sparked an intense partisan debate.

Virtually everyone involved in the debate agrees that California's energy woes reveal major shortcomings in national energy policy. The nation's largest state, California in June 2000 began experiencing crippling energy shortages ...