Posted on 09/28/2006 5:37:01 PM PDT by snugs
Today the President visited Republican Senators on Capitol Hill and afterwards spoke to the media
He then travelled to Ala and Ohio for campaigning for Republican candidates.
The First Lady was in Michigan campaigning as well
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
QUOTE OF THE DAY
President Bush Discusses Energy in Alabama
Hoover Public Safety Center
Hoover, Alabama
THE PRESIDENT: You know, the price of gasoline has been dropping, and that's good news for the American consumer, it's good news for the small business owners, it's good news for the farmers. But it's very important for us to remember that we still have an issue when it comes to dependence on foreign oil. And one way to become less dependent on foreign oil is for us to develop new ways to power our automobiles right here in America.
And so I've come to Hoover, Alabama, to recognize this city for being innovative and progressive and for having a good football team. (Laughter and applause.) I want to thank Mayor Tony Petelos and the city council for serving and leading. See, what we have just witnessed is a police force that is filling up its vehicles with a fuel called E85. When you hear somebody talk about fuel E85, that means 85 percent of the fuel comes from ethanol. And ethanol is produced from corn. And corn is grown right here in the United States of America.
One way to become less dependent on foreign oil is to use American-grown products to power our automobiles. And that's what we just witnessed. So I asked Officer Parker, of the Hoover Police Department, I said, do you like using E85? See, he has a choice, because there are what we call flex-fuel vehicles. He can either use ethanol-based fuel or regular gasoline. As a matter of fact, there's a lot of cars in the United States that are flex-fuel, and some of you probably don't even know you've got a car that's flex-fuel. It doesn't cost much money, by the way, to convert a regular automobile, an automobile that uses gasoline, to a flex-fuel car.
So anyway, so I said, Officer Parker, I said -- first, I told him thanks for serving. And then I said, you've got a choice, don't you, between gasoline and E85? He said, I do. I said, which one do you pick? He said, E85. I said, why? He said, because it's got a little better "git up" to it. In other words, it works just fine.
And it works just fine for other reasons, as well. It works just fine because it helps keep our air clean. It works just fine because it helps address a national security issue. So one of the important policies of governments ought to be to encourage the production and use of ethanol. And there's a federal role for that. In other words, we provide tax credits. We think it's in our national interest that ethanol penetrate more market -- in other words, more people use ethanol.
We're providing research dollars, and one reason you provide research dollars is because it's going to be important for us to use something beyond corn to make ethanol. In other words, corn is good, and so is sugar. But you can imagine it's going to put a little strain on the corn market after a while if the only raw material we use for ethanol is corn. After all, you've got to feed the cows, and feed the hogs, and feed people, as well as feed automobiles with fuel.
PHOTO OF THE DAY 
President George W. Bush stresses the importance of developing and using alternative fuels while speaking on energy issues Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006, during a visit to the Hoover Public Safety Center in Hoover, Ala. The city has just opened an alternative fueling station to provide E85 (ethanol) and biodiesel fuels for public agency vehicles. White House photo by Paul Morse
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Nice picture. Catching sight of the President makes me smile too.
11 second rule???
good evening all
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Missed it by one second better luck next time
Wouldn't I just love to plant a big fat kiss on that man's cheek!
President George W. Bush sits with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as they host a working dinner Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006, at the White House with President Hamid Karzai, left, of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and President Pervez Musharraf, of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
President George W. Bush is escorted by Vice President Dick Cheney and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to attend GOP meetings at the US Capitol in Washington, September 28, 2006. 
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President George W. Bush stands with Senators Bill Frist and Mitch McConnell as he addresses the press after meeting with the Republican Senate Conference at the U. S. Capitol Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006
I hope you mean President Bush! ;)
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Just what I needed...The DOSE! Thanks!
Good evening to you too
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