Posted on 01/26/2007 3:37:07 PM PST by rellimpank
We don't have the energy.
Is there anything more depressing than yet another promise of energy independence in yet another State of the Union address? By my count, 24 of the 34 State of the Union addresses since the oil embargo of 1973 have proposed solutions to our energy problem.
The result? In 1973 we imported 34.8 percent of our oil. Today we import 60.3 percent.
And what does this president propose? Another great technological fix. For Jimmy Carter, it was the magic of synfuels. For George Bush, it's the wonders of ethanol. Our fuel will grow on trees. Well, stalks, with even fancier higher-tech variants to come from
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Charles has been coming across as tremendously upset and worried, lately.
--coal and nukes--nukes and coal---everybody needs to go to the blackboard and write this a thousand times--
SSDD
Same Sh!t Different Decade.
I wish our president would have announced during his state of the union address a moon-shot type program that would end our energy dependence.
Bush appears to be a spent force. He should have given Krauthammers tough love energy talk after 9/11, instead of Islam is a religion of peace and the Saudis and Pakis are our friends nonsense.
Oh well, we can always look forward to immigration reform.
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