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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (230272)	2/23/2002 12:11:56 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush touts energy plan By Richard Tomkins Published 2/23/2002 11:06 AM WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- President Bush Saturday called on the Senate to pass his energy proposals to lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil and protect economic and national security. U.S. oil consumption, he said, is expected to increase by about one-third over the next two decades, while demand for electricity is expected to rise by 45 percent. "America is already using more energy than our domestic resources can provide, and unless we act to increase our energy independence, our reliance on foreign sources of energy will only increase," he said in his weekly radio address, following his return from Asia. "Passing my comprehensive energy plan is not just important for energy security, it is also vital to our economic security. Economic growth requires reliable and affordable energy ... We all remember the blackouts and the sky-high energy bills of recent summers." Bush's energy agenda, passed by the House of Representatives, includes opening up a portion of Alaska's Artic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. Critics argue it would spoil the natural environment, but Bush argued new technology would protect the environment, and that "national security makes it urgent." Bush said his plan would promote conservation, increase funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs and invests in new technologies for the development of such systems as fuel cells for the powering of vehicles. upi.com

To: gao seng who wrote (230272)	2/23/2002 3:23:09 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"I would join up and only buy oil from a non-ME supplier" Yes, and so would everyone else... That's a sudden many billions of dollars of direct impact to those we wish to influence, completely bypassing the incompetents in the administration and backroom deals in oil barons and arms merchants. It's a revolutionary act. The consequences would be wonderful. Yes, as I said there would be some in this country and others would buy ME oil, that doesn't matter, since the amount and the economic and political threat of the main would speak very very loudly, even the announcement, before any purchases were even made. The point is this: IT IS NOT COERCION think about that, in great detail, who gets coerced these days, it's you and me, as well as souls under despotic regimes. Unleashing consumer choice on the world will change the world. You have gotten tripped up by theories of Illuminati and flying saucers. Don't. Think, rather than project onto people that may, or may not have ideas, and try not to pollute those ideas with other ideas that have no merit or relevance, or may be "ringer" ideas designed to discredit uncomfortable ideas... I.e., listen and think.