When Bush, Cheney and the conservative ideologues pontificate on the American appetite for energy as an indicator of rational self-interest, they are defending a "business lifestyle"--one dominated by the marketplace values of "winner take all" and "live for today." But we can choose not [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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