DISQUS

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Yeah, Jimmy Carter said that in the 70s, when he formed the Dept. of Energy.

Then Reagan cut it's funding, killed its demonstration projects and tried to eliminate it in the 80s.

Hasn't been the same since.

unclemike · 1 year ago

Yeah, it's a shame this guy Bush hasn't been in charge of things the last, ooooh, 7.5 years. He sounds like the kind of get-r-dun head honcho we''ve been looking for.

jr · 1 year ago

Bush is King Abdullah's doormat

kdawg1012 · 1 year ago

"He mentioned steps such as developing alternate fuels, improving conservation and expanding domestic exploration."
Where's he been on this for the last seven and a half years? Oh, I forgot, he was missing in action while helping the oil companies make obscene record profits on the backs of the American people.

pcvirginiabeach · 1 year ago

Watch the news clips from that meeting. It is pretty clear, they laughed at him. I am not going to say he does not deserve it, but this is serious buisness. When the Saudis feel enabled enough to laugh at a sitting president of the USA, it does not speak well for our political position in the world.

gwpriester · 1 year ago

Alternative fuels being petroleum, petroleum, and petroleum.

What Bush does not realize is even though he let all the Saudis including some of the Bin Laden family leave the country immediately after 9/11 and before they could be questioned by the FBI, the Saudis could care less. If the US does not want to buy their petroleum China and India and the rest of the world will be only too happy to oblige.

stranded · 1 year ago

But mostly, the President added, I intend to scratch my butt, chase Barney around the Oval Office, and give up golf. Again. There, now is everybody happy?

DCinDC · 1 year ago

Saudis tell Bush to jump. He replies, "How Far?"

Andrew · 1 year ago

Would someone P.L.E.A.S.E. tell the moron in chief that rather than looking to drill in the US for oil, that the very process alone would take at least ten years before a drop could be used and that our time would be better spent if we stopped sending dollars down a rat hole like Iraq and create a new Manhattan Project for alternative energy. If we could bring the greatest minds together during the 1930's to build an Atomic bomb, then surely with todays brains and technology we can come up with better forms of renewable energy.
The problem has always been the collusion of the oil companies and government in hampering any attempt to create clean renewable energy, because if that is let to happen, niether the oil companies nor government can control the winds, the sun, or mankinds ability to think outside the box.

graeme · 1 year ago

Gee, is Bush now into that commie command economy stuff - trying to have the state manipulate a free market? What would the late great Uncle Miltie and the Chicago School say about this apostasy? The market is working George! Demand is rising, supply is falling, your dollar is buying less every day - and you want Dad or your Saudi pals to bail you out? While Americans continue to have some of the lowest costs at the pump this hand-wringing and bowing and scraping before the Saudis is amusing in an I-don't-think-I-want-to-see-this-embarrassment way. Try Putin. You saw into his soul and he's a good guy to put the touch on. Maybe Chavez will cough up something if the American government were willing to undergo some decidedly non-IMF 'structural adjustment'. Bankrupt of ideas the American leader ends his career whining and begging like a junkie.

siva · 1 year ago

Can all governments (USA, Canada, rest of the world depends on oil) create a comprehensive alternate energy policies such as Coal, Nuclear etc.? And in-turn promote electric cars, public transit. This alone will send shiver to the spine of oil countries and companies. But our governments are puppets of these corporations and getting transport allowance. So they do not care about common people like you and me.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Justice Scalia just wants us all to forget the Supreme Court gave us George W. Bush in 2000.

Just imagine how much better out country would have been without the past eight years of mismanagement and war mongering...

Judge Scalia "just get over it!" He is a pig.

Shannon · 1 year ago

I don't know why Americans are mad at bush. What did they think was going to happen when they elected the oil companies to run the country???