Thursday, February 2, 2006

Administration backs off

Bush's vow to reduce Mideast oil imports:
Well, that didn't take long...
"One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally.What the president meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels could displace an amount of oil imports equivalent to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025.But America still would import oil from the Middle East, because that's where the greatest oil supplies are.The president's State of the Union reference to Mideast oil made headlines nationwide Wednesday because of his assertion that 'America is addicted to oil' and his call to 'break this addiction.'"

1 comment:

  1. America is addicted to oil, and thanks to pushers like the President and Dick Cheney it has only gotten worse. Does this president think before he speaks?

    Perhaps this is what he calls "Strategery"

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