President vows to cut dependence on oil from the Middle East - or not.

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<p>January 31, 2006, George W. Bush, in his State of the Union Address, said:
"Here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction is through technology. " … “Breakthroughs on this and other new technologies will help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025.” </p>

<p>February 1, 2006: Energy Secretary and national economic advisor Samuel Bodman said that the president didn’t mean it literally. “This was purely an example.” </p>

<p>“Never mind.” - Emily Littela.</p>

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<p>That is right, he made a booboo in the state of the union address, a speech that is planned and written for months- Yep, really makes a nation feel confident in the direction this idjet is taking us</p>

<p>…It was not addicted to oil, it was addicted to foreign oil, then it was oppsy, I didn’t mean what someone wrote, or maybe I wrote it, and whoever wrote my speech, GOOD JOB, you get promoted…</p>

<p>Sigh</p>

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<p>/sigh indeed</p>

<p>I thought that all CC posts had to be written in English.</p>

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<p>I was just copying the Bush style, all gobblygook</p>

<p>See, the speech takes a LONG time to write, and facts and ideas are supposed to be checked, and vetted, and double checks, and the policies discussed, but something as big as Oil, well, he really didn’t mean what he said.</p>

<p>That is a pretty big deal. He said something he didn’t mean in the speech that he has to give to talk about what kind of job he is doing.</p>

<p>But, please, don’t coment on THAT, just comment on my posts. That is typical of Bush supporters. Shot the messenger.</p>

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<p>Do you not have a comment to make about the retraction made by the President’s staff about the most important speech of the year?</p>

<p>Wonder what else in his speech he really didn’t mean,and were just examples, and hyperbole…</p>

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<p>Perhaps he was referring to Middle Eastern OLIVE oil. Here in Californian we’re trying to boost this homegrown product in an attempt to wean ourselves off this dependency on imported olive oils.</p>

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<p>That might explain the reference to switchgrass, but I’m sticking to olives, personally. Speaking of which, how can you be “extra virgin”, anyway?</p>

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<p>I think that CC rules would disallow discussion of being “extra virgin” inasmuch as this is a family-oriented site. But you might ask down at Sinners Alley.</p>

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<p>lol ! :smiley: - thanks guys - I needed that!</p>

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<p>Retraction or not, reducing our dependence on Middle East oil will only happen if we reduce our demand altogether. </p>

<p>Here’s one to chew on for a bit of fun: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nrdc.org/air/transportation/oilsecurity/plan.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nrdc.org/air/transportation/oilsecurity/plan.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Ah, but remember what happened the last time there was an attempt to raise the fuel efficiency standards, in 2002:</p>

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Bad government! Bad, bad government!</p>