Bush put all of the solutions to our energy problems in the 2001 energy bill (you know, the one written by Dick Cheney and his Big Oil buddies?).
Unfortunately, after it went down to defeat following the defection/treason of Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords it was completely ignored by Bush for the next 7 years.
In the original bill, not only did it call for CAFE standards to be raised and for mandates on new renewable energy to be produced but it also called for drilling in ANWR/Gulf Coast/Baja and the N Mountain States for crude and natural gas as well as the improvement of infrastructure in electrical transmission lines, natural gas lines and the building of new refineries in coastal states to handle future demand.
Bush has used the word ‘ANWR’ maybe 7 times since early 2001. And he hasn’t used them this year except to point out that he isn’t going to be drilling there despite the incredible pain his laissez faire policy is having on consumers and the fact that gas hikes have more than twice offset his tax cuts from 2001/2003 and thrown the country into a recession.
Funny that he doesn’t seem to give a damn about this. Being an ‘oil guy’ and all. If only he were the oilrig humping neanderthal that the Left promised he would be back in 2000. If only.
So you are saying it was jumping jim's fault and not Bush's. OH BTW, some 7 years ago 9/11 happened.
BTW, how come these solutions that Bush first proposed and you endorse were slammed by the media, instead of moaning in an echo chamber why don't you get the truth out to your fellow citizens.