CBS Evening News - 2001-05-17
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[0:01] Showdown time for the bush energy plan
[0:04] the president Begins the Hard Sell as
[0:07] prices go up power goes out and the plan
[0:11] comes in for heavy criticism including a
[0:14] Governor's threat to take matters into
[0:17] his own hands also tonight a mayor
[0:20] handcuffed and charged with murder and I
[0:24] on America Jean altered food creeping
[0:27] into the food chain is it making people
[0:36] sick this is the CBS Evening News with
[0:40] Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:42] headquarters in New York good evening
[0:45] it's not a pretty picture Americans are
[0:47] paying record prices for gasoline
[0:50] residents of the most populous state in
[0:52] the nation don't have enough electricity
[0:54] and there are dire predictions of Summer
[0:56] blackouts from one Coast to the other
[0:59] today in the Midwest President Bush
[1:01] officially put out his plan for dealing
[1:03] with all this it includes opening
[1:06] portions of the Arctic National Wildlife
[1:08] Refuge in Alaska to drilling
[1:10] encouragement for the coal industry
[1:13] building more nuclear power plants and
[1:16] some tax credits to encourage
[1:18] conservation there are no what Mr Bush
[1:20] calls quick fixes but the plan did draw
[1:23] fast criticism from among others
[1:25] Democrats in Congress and
[1:27] environmentalists they call it to little
[1:30] too late and to sell out to business and
[1:32] industry at the expense of consumers and
[1:35] true conservationists cbs's John Roberts
[1:38] begins tonight's coverage of the energy
[1:42] crunch protesters gave the president a
[1:44] lump of coal for his energy plan today
[1:47] five tons actually dropped right on the
[1:49] vice president's doorstep along with oil
[1:51] drums and mock n