Posted on 05/17/2008 7:42:43 AM PDT by zeebee
US President George W. Bush said on Saturday that a hike in oil output by Saudi Arabia would not solve American energy problems.
"It's not enough, it's something but it doesn't solve our problem," Bush told reporters in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Bush said he was "pleased" with a Saudi decision taken on May 10 to increase its oil production by 300,000 barrels per day in response to customers, but said that he was "also realistic" about what the Americans should do.
"Our problem in America gets solved when we aggressively go for domestic exploration. Our problem in America gets solved if we expand our refining capacity, promote nuclear energy and continue our strategy for the advancing of alternative energies as well as conservation," he said.
"One interesting thing about American politics these days is those who are screaming the loudest for increased production from Saudi Arabia are the very same people who are fighting the fiercest against domestic exploration, against the development of nuclear power and against expanding refining capacity."
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love it.
What now, Sir???
Not that anything he says is false, but if you’d ask me 20 years ago if I thought a US President would be in the position to repeatedly beg the Saudis to increase oil production, and would be rebuffed, I wouldn’t have said it was gonna happen.
Absoultely nailed it. Amazing that the same Democrats who can stand there with a straight face and say “We cannot drill our way out of this problem” turn right around in the next breath and demand the Saudis increase production to solve the problem for us.
The countdown to ObamaPelosiReidDaschle whinefest begins.
But man, did he really have to do the hand-holding thing again?
Foreign-borns,doing jobs Americans won’t do.
For well over 100 years the US, one if not THE most technological advanced countries on this planet, has been dependent upon machines that guzzle oil or its byproduct. The major producers of this product is in the hands of unstable dictatorships who don’t like us. Wouldn’t it occur to someone that there’s got to be a better way? Perhaps developing machinery that doesn’t use one drop of this product. Are all of our scientists and companies R&D that slow to react or stupid? The technology is OUT there. Where is it?
Republicans need to keep on hammering about domestic production.
Gas will easily be $5-6 a gallon by the time the impact from a few newly built refineries is felt and drilling off-shore or ANWR, that’s if they started construction today.
The enviro-mental activists have been winning the media propaganda war and in the courts for the past 40 years. Get used to higher fuel prices.
How about shipping the oil from the Alaska pipeline to the lower 48 instead of selling all of it to Japan and China?Maybe an extra million barrels a day of OUR OWN OIL might help a little?
I have been wondering if we haven’t lost our leverage w/Saudi, which, as I understnd it, involves their security.
What would prevent China or Russia from offering security to the Saudis?
Take all the taxes off gas and what is the price??
What we have been dependent on is CHEAP ENERGY, no matter the source.
And the Left has done EVERYTHING it can to destroy those cheap sources, from Nuclear Power, to Hydro-Electric, to coal, and yes, to OIL...
The Infrastructure that America spent so much treasure to build, that created this great economy, is strained and cracking because of the shifts to SOCIAL PROGRAMMING/ VOTE BUYING.
only if President Bush had been aggressive with these appeasers 5 years ago the way he has been this week, we would not be in the minority
Maybe if we quit buying this mindless demagoguery that has been pouring out of the Democrats since 1978, (Windfall profit tax, investigate big oil, increaser CFE standards etc) we might finally realize that WE are the problem here. Not OPEC, not “Big OIl” US with our stupid notions that we could have all the absurd Green policies while never having to pay an economic cost for those polices
And now we have Juan McCain to vote for, who also doesn't want to drill in ANWR...
... and probably won't push his Shamnesty amigo Uncle Ted to have an offshore wind farm in his back yard either.
The transition away from petroleum liquids will take 25 painful years. Oddly, there have already been 30 years of riotous economic growth while the eventual transition was ignored. The transition could have been done by now, no problem. But, the Apollo moon program, the Superconducting Supercollider, and the petroleum liquid transitions were stopped cold all that time and now we have 25 years of pain ahead.
Maybe people should remember all those Democrat lead fillbustered that blocked any changes in our Energy policy.
Maybe instead of fixating on the 5% of the votes for those fillbusters that came from Republicans, the usual suspects MIGHT finally hold the Democrats accountable for THEIR actions?
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