[kimosabe31]

Along the same line, the president wants to promote the development of alternative fuel for automobiles. This program will complete a 12-year federal effort to develop a hydrogen-based source of energy for automobile use.

It's really weird the way Bush painfully sidestepped the issue of opening ANWR to drilling. Why doesn't he just "body slam" the enviroNazis and order drilling to commence? Why does he coddle these fascists? Does he actually believe the repubs have a constituancy here?

[Element187]

agreed ... drill in the ANWR while we create new energy sources like hydrogen cars.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I actually liked what he said about alternative energy sources. Imagine if our military as well as all government vehicles ran on hydrogen based fuel.

For the time it would take to tap ANWR, build the infrastructure to refine and distribute it would be just as easy to work on the alternatives, give the necessary tax breaks and to move forward rather than maintain the status quo.

[BonnieJ]

I never expect much out of the SOTU speeches, they always gloss things over and reach out to the entire nation. I guess that's the tradition. It was a very good speech though, and quite in line with all the others given this time of year over the decades.