The Bush administration is not a puppet of the oil and logging industries, oh no, and they’re only stamping down on California’s environmental legislation for the state’s own good.

From drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to snowmobiles in Yellowstone, the Bush administration argues that they’re only supporting what locals want. But not in California. “Basically their position is, ‘we respect state authority, but only when the state agrees with the oil industry,'”