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

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (680342)	4/21/2005 6:43:42 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yep... less pork and subsidies then last year's version (I guess that's progress, albeit modest), and the electric grid changes are fairly important and long over-due. As to the rest... no big deal, nothing particularly important of useful (IMO), a fair amount of unhelpful special interest legislation and corporate welfare, and rather uninspired national industrial policy, and yes... I have no problem with drilling in the Reserve. It's worth noting that the Energy Department estimates that the bills provisions will occasion a three cents per gallon rise in the average national cost of gasoline....

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (680342)	4/21/2005 9:01:07 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

The Washington Post's Jim VandeHei throws this interesting paragraph into his wrap of President Bush's remarks on energy and the bill in Congress yesterday: "Bush, whose energy plan has been stalled in Congress for four years, is facing increased pressure from Democrats and a coalition of conservatives to do much more to promote alternative energy sources and more efficient vehicles this year. Some say the president should set aside, or scrap, his Social Security plan and dedicate his second term instead to dramatically restructuring the way Americans power their businesses, homes and cars. They cite the confluence of three events as reason to act immediately: the steep rise in oil and gas prices, increased U.S. dependency on the oil-rich Middle East and skyrocketing demand for oil in China and India." Note the conservatives (Bauer and Gaffney) and their pro-energy-independence rhetoric. washingtonpost.com