Oil companies formed US climate policy

In the umpteenth revelation that this administration is rotten to the core, it's been revealed that Bush's underlings were working with ExxonMobil to kill the Kyoto Treaty on global warming. Naturally, a British paper has the story:

"President George Bush's decisionnot to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world's most powerful oil company, and other industries, according to US State Department papers seen by the Guardian. . .

Other papers suggest that Ms Dobriansky should sound out Exxon executives and other anti-Kyoto business groups on potential alternatives to Kyoto.

Until now, Exxon has publicly maintainted that it had no involvement in the US government's rejection of Kyoto."

Bush and Cheney, of course, have gone on the record vehemently denying that big oil has any influence whatsoever on White House policy.