After Bush's renunciation of the Kyoto Protocol in March last year, the administration slapped high tariffs on steel imports and gave a huge subsidy boost to American farmers, further fuelling resentment and exposing a deep and almost ideological transatlantic divide.
So split the difference – keep the Kyoto Protocol dead and buried, but scrap the steel tariffs, and drop the subsidies to American farmers.
It’s a win-win for everybody, foreign and domestic, who isn’t looking for a US government handout.