Posted on 01/23/2007 10:49:08 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - In his first State of the Union address to a Democratic-controlled Congress, President Bush is calling for Americans to slash gasoline consumption by up to 20 percent by 2017.
Bush envisions the goal being achieved primarily through a sharp escalation in the amount of ethanol and other alternative fuels that the federal government mandates must be produced.
The rest of the fuel use reduction is to come from raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars, Joel Kaplan, White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters in a briefing before Bush's Tuesday night speech to a joint session of Congress.
I'll update this one as it grows. :-)
So let's increase the ethanol boondoggle, and
The rest of the fuel use reduction is to come from raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars, Joel Kaplan, White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters in a briefing before Bush's Tuesday night speech to a joint session of Congress.
Force Americans to drive smaller and more dangerous cars.
Reduce gasoline consumption? No problem, pass some reasonable regulations on diesel.
Anything that we can do as a country to deny Muslim countries sources of revenue is a good thing. How we do it is another.
Meanwhile the rich will continue to drive whatever they want. Its us little people that need to behave.
G.W.'s advice will be ........ don't stand too near Mrs. Clinton.
For anyone's reference, US gasoline consumption from 1945
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mgfupus1m.htm
Typical STOU address with a laundry list of things that will never be done.
I simply do not understand the desire to further strip the soil of production value by using Ethanol. Somehow it seems like a misuse of the agricultural soil to "grow" gasoline. I'm sure ADM and associates like the the cost of corn going through the roof, but that has economic consequences in addition to the certain moral ones of harvesting corn for gasoline.
The Libs are already warming-up their private jets to use to cross the country denouncing Bush's plan...
I pledge to cut back my gasoline consumption by 100% by 2017.
Biodiesel, butanol, ethanol, coal-diesel, hybrids, fuel cells etc. We can do it now! Just get GM and the others to produce the engines!.......
Bush is proposing to change to how the tax code treats health insurance, by counting employer contributions toward health insurance as taxable income while establishing a standard deduction for anyone with insurance.
Can I get a wakeup call when this nightmare is over?
Either you drive a diesel or you're 95 years old.........
The more I hear what's going to be said tonight, the stronger the likelihood that I'll watch the latest re-runs of "Rome" on HBO.
About the only thing that can bring me out of my current funk is for VP Cheney to announce that he'll run for President in 2008.
Getting laid wouldn't hurt, either.
Someone here on FR also mentioned the accelerated depletion of the Ogalala Resevoir due to the corn/ethanol crop.
What is George doing stealing Jimmy Carter's material?
20% in ten years. Sure.
""So let's increase the ethanol boondoggle, and""
Ethanol is a boondoggle, but as far as boondoggles go, cutting only "20%" and as late as "2017" is not very imaginative by Bush Admin.
Maybe they are still beholden to the oil boys.
Forget the "maybe."
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