Bush says Democrats keep blocking his energy plans

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - President Bush is accusing Democrats in Congress of blocking his energy proposals, saying they are partly to blame for high gasoline costs pinching Americans' budgets.

In his Saturday radio address, Bush urged Congress to lift its long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling to increase U.S. energy production. Democrats have rejected the idea.

"This is a difficult time for many American families," Bush said. "Rising gasoline prices and economic uncertainty can affect everything from what food parents put on the table to where they can go on vacation."

Bush said offshore drilling could yield up to 18 billion barrels of oil over time, although it would take years for production to start.



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is not polite; that said an acceptable response to us is likewise:

"So...."

...they are! :7

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Bush wasn't man enough to become president of all of the people. He has remained a corrupt little toady for the corrupt Republican corporate entities.

He is a little fucking whiny 12 year old brat - if it isn't his way, he takes his ball and goes home and crys to mama.

cretin bastard!!

This Pygmalion continues to create a pile of crap out of everything that he touches and then cries that the Democrats fed him chocolate and pork rinds to make him do it! He cannot continue ot blame the Democrats for his total abysmal failure to develop an energy policy--thats what you have an Energy Secretary for Dumbo! And Nancy Pelosi and mild mannered Harry Reid continue to allow the infantile to get his way on every poorly thought out issue! If Pelosi thinks that the Sierra Club, Save the Bay, and their very influential friends are going ot allow her to give up the ocean waters for some Republican greed-she can pass of her tiara right now to Cindy Sheehan or a homeless guy on the street willing to take her place. Steney Hoyer and Harry Reid have political machines to save their asses but good luck Nancy on reelection in Marin County--it ain't gonna happen. And another thing--if Barack Obama intends to be an agent of change he'd better stop smiling for the camera and start talking about real solutions. We don't need to hear his professorial speak--we need to hear how he is going to save our economy and put jobs back into this country. If he can't do that then maybe that Elitist title fit appropriately. The Democratic Party needs leadership and without it George Bush continues to crap on the rest of us!

No it's not the oil companies.

And how stupid does he think the American people ARE???


OK, so maybe there's a 20-something percentage who are still madly in love with the little bastard, but the rest of us either figured him out long ago, or finally saw the light....

anyway...

In at least one speech I heard him say that we're too dependent on fossil fuels.

OK, that makes sense

So what does he propose?

Keep up that dependency/addiction by DRILLING FOR MORE OF THE SAME.


Yeah, whatever. It's like telling someone he's got a drinking problem, then giving him the keys to the liquor cabinet with a sly wink.


His face..the sound of his voice...his mannerisms... everything about him disgusts me. Jan 20 2009 can't come fast enough.

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then talk about who's been an obstacle in addressing high energy costs.

for oil but that they lacked refineries, why are they not building refineries instead of waiting to tap more oil when they claim they cant refine what they have now fast enough?

and the iraq war is pretty much the sum of his "energy plans".

Fuck this idiot, crybaby man-child.

Note that the places where there is offshore production are places like the Gulf of Mexico and Southern California. In both cases, there are on-shore fields that continue off-shore.

Are there any oil wells in the Atlantic coast states?

Are there any oil wells in Oregon, Washington, Southern Alaska, Hawaii?

So the Florida Gulf coast might have some, there may be more off Southern California, and off the North Slope of Alaska.

It's a matter of geology. You have to have old sedimentary rocks laid down in the right geologic age, and they must have been capped by later impervious layers to retain the oil.

We must focus on conservation and we can do MUCH better, saving much more that we'd ever find off the Atlantic Coast while we also address our role in global climate change. Plus risking a multibillion dollar tourist industry over 1000 miles of coastline to drill for a moderate amount of gas/oil seems illogical.

I could plan to fly by flapping my arms and jumping off a tall building.

It would have as great a chance of working as any plan Bush has hatched

renewable sources.

If they want to drill more, they can drill on the 68 million acres they aren't using. In the meantime, speculators should stop hoarding oil to artificially inflate the price. How's THAT for an energy plan, Georgie?