Bush: "America is addicted to Oil"

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Back off Revi, you're not getting your grubby hands on our beaver jerky!
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I think Jenna should marry Justin Trudeau. The joining of dynasties, liberal and neo-con, it would be so Shakespearian.
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grabby · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Nov 08, 2005 Posts: 1328

Revi · Fusion Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 3112 Location: Maine

Coyote, you are right. The reality is scary as hell. The only reason Bush told us we're addicted to oil is that he sees that he won't have enough to keep us all happy, so he is telling us we have a problem. He just wants to shift the blame. He's like a pusher who sees that he's not going to get next week's junk. He's telling all his addicts that they have to quit taking the stuff he sells. It won't work so well when we are all jonesing for oil next year and he doesn't have enough to give us. So it's time for a scapegoat. Who's good? How about Iran. They were good in the 70's and now they have a leader who keeps making bellicose statements. He may have nukes soon too. And he happens to be sitting on one of the last big pots of oil and gas. He'll do. When real scarcity comes we'll all be told that there's a good reason for it. And it'll be true.

grabby · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Nov 08, 2005 Posts: 1328

Hes not too concerned he's planning for retirement.

For now, Bush has started planning for his presidential library, to be built in Texas, either at Southern Methodist University, the University of Dallas or Baylor University, or else by a group led by Texas Tech University. Beyond that, Bush has said he is not sure what he'll do. Even now, he dismisses

backstop

Can anyone say whether "Americans for energy independence" are talking about oil imports, or all fuel impots, or all fuel imports plus the energy embedded in the vast flow of imported goods and materials into the US ?

Plainly, the third option has to be more than twice the first.

This is an issue that new posters often haven't got up to speed with - that US oil dependence is not just a matter of oil tankers docking - it is about economic stability around the world that, for now, maintains the flow of vital, useful and trivial goods across those docks.

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It's wierd how he threw out "oil addiction" and "conservation" like that, and then reversed course the next day... Its doubly wierd that this didn't set off a detailed national discussion about oil reserves and the viability of alternative fuels. To me it says that 1) investigative journalism is dead 2) the public now has the attention span of a small dog 3) this might have just been a threat/warning to OPEC that the US could initiate savings efforts (decreasing demand and prices) if the taps aren't kept wide open. With that message sent the Addiction/Conservation topic recieved no more play... In short, the Oil Addiction/ alternative fuels statement might not have been directed at US audiences (who don't really pay attention to speeches anyway)

Revi · Fusion Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 3112 Location: Maine

I think that "america is addicted to oil" will become his most famous words. His father had "read my lips, no new taxes" and Bill Clinton had "I did not have sex with that woman". I could be wrong, and that sound bite was wiped out by the superbowl.

ChicknLittle · Heavy Crude Joined: Jan 22, 2006 Posts: 115

The Secretary of the Department of Energy is being questioned on C-span to discuss the budget Bush submitted... It was pointed out that the administration was cutting R&D research funding despite its claim that it wanted to reduce America's dependance on foreign oil. He conceeded that the president supported the "goal" of decreasing oil importation, but that there was already enough free market incentive and private funds to produce new oil projects. Additionally, he seems to be saying that our current pace of research into alternative energy sources is all we need to be doing to meet the 20 year goal. He resisted offering support for legislation which would make the administration's commitment to decreasing oil dependance law (sigh).

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