Posted on 04/23/2006 6:29:49 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
I "tanked up" over Easter weekend. I should be good until after the 4th of July. Three months of NO visits to the gas/Diesel station. Easy Street.
I can drive 55.
Who is the Secy of Energy? Is there one?
Well the old one was a RINO Senator who was shown the door.
whoever he is, he's got an approval rating of 10%, so what difference does it make.
lift the blended fuels mandate now, open the SPR - DO SOMETHING MR PRESIDENT.
There is. He is a boring white male.
Samuel W. Bodman
Secretary of Energy
www.energy.gov
Samuel Wright Bodman was sworn in as the 11th Secretary of Energy on February 1, 2005 after the United States Senate unanimously confirmed him on January 31, 2005. He leads the Department of Energy with a budget in excess of $23 billion and over 100,000 federal and contractor employees.
Whoever it is he needs to start getting some series face time, including finding Krushchev's UN shoe.
Shave off the rest of his hair and hand him a shoe. What is the Dept doing with $23 billion? It was overfunded at $5 billion.
January 2, 2001 President-elect Bush nominates outgoing Senator Spencer Abraham (R-Michigan) as Secretary of Energy.
Whoever he is, we don't need a kindly grandfather right now. We need a tough uncle who doesn't pull his punches.
I too doubt that Bush said: "Petrol", but he probably did say: "Addicted", and my opinion is that he has made a poor choice by using that word. A very poor choice.
"Addicted" raises the image of a drug addict, and I think that many Americans will not like to be placed in that category.
The President can say we should get ready for a tough summer, but his approval rating will (rightfully) go down if he doesn't do something. He can easily help lower the gasoline price burden by mandating one gasoline blend for the country instead of these boutique blends. He can also release some oil from the SPR, and push harder for domestic drilling. He's done none of these- and until he does, his statements on energy and gasoline are just full of hot air.
Bush, I like you, but get off your ass.
We will lose this election if you do not do what you do not take at least some action here.
You may say there isn't much you can do, but TRY. You will at least get some brownie points there that may rub off on the GOP.
Yeah, they're making oil sound like crack or something. Next thing you know, some idiot in Congress will now propose a "war on oil."
The West has already spent $2.3 trillion on foreign aid to the third world over the last 5 decades. I suspect if that money had been thrown at alternative energy research, importing oil from angry Islamic Republics would not be a problem today.
Get off his ass and do what? The market works. Politically motivated interference creates worse disruptions. Back in the 1970's we had price controls. We also had long lines for gasoline.
What if Bush appointed a flamethrower as Secy of Energy and let him loose? Could even lead to a Presidential candidacy in '08 for the here-to-fore unknown.
Sounds good to me.
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