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

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (535133)	2/4/2004 12:13:16 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

< I by the way support RENEWABLES myself. And guess the person who has proposed the most funding for RENEWABLES is President Bush. > I almost sprayed my coffee all over my monitor. You guessed wrong on Bush's funding on renewables...... "Bush Budget Slashes Funds for Renewable Energy Sources Days After Call for Energy Independence, Cuts Hinder Plan for Clean Hydrogen Future WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 - President Bush's proposed federal budget slashes funding for numerous clean energy and energy efficiency programs, including funding for bioenergy, wind and geothermal electricity sources. The cuts were announced less than a week after the President announced his goal of energy independence in the State of the Union address. Ironically, the cuts in funding for renewable sources that can generate hydrogen could also impede the President's highly touted plan for bringing clean hydrogen fuel cell cars and trucks to the road. "We are disappointed that the Bush administration cut funds for homegrown, clean energy sources," said Alan Nogee, Director of the Clean Energy Program at UCS. "These budget cuts hurt renewable energy sources like wind and geothermal power just as they are ready to take off." The FY 2004 budget plan for the Department of Energy reduces funding for bioenergy and biorefinery systems by over $16 million as compared with the previous year's budget - a cut of almost 19 percent. Funding for wind power, which brought 410 megawatts of electricity online in 2002, was cut by 5.5 percent. Geothermal technology also received a 3.8 percent funding hit. And over at the Department of Agriculture, the Bush administration's budget virtually eliminates $23 million that was to provide grants and loans to farmers, ranchers and rural small businesses for the development of renewable energy projects and energy efficiency improvements." ucsusa.org At the same time he increased subsidies to the already established coal, oil and nuclear industries. Try to get at least some facts right Thomas. You have to get information from somebody other than dopehead Rush. As you know the Repubes haven't finished their new energy bill. They are waiting for campaign contributions to come in before deciding who is most worthy of funding. Oh, and by the way, as you know they also made sure that the slobs who drive gas guzzling Humvees get a nice tax break. Del