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To: RetiredNow who wrote (322650)	1/24/2007 10:51:23 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575622

Tim, Bush's goal is to cut gas consumption by 20% by 2017. This is miniscule when considering that still leaves us dependent on other countries for our oil Perhaps the word your looking for in "insufficient" or "inadequate", but minuscule really doesn't seem to fit, even if we take your ideas about the importance of reducing oil imports as a given. In ordinary terms 20% of our gasoline is a huge amount. Looked at as a percentage, it doesn't seem quite so huge but its hardly tiny. A man of vision would have said, let's cut our gas consumption by 70% within 10-15 years, so that we are oil independent. That would be a rather extreme vision. And let's eliminate the deficit within the next 2 years of my presidency. Not quite as extreme, but still difficult. But not having and pushing through extreme visions, doesn't mean that you have no real convictions. The fact that Bush and you might have different convictions is a different issue. I agree that Bush's new "reduce our oil/gas use" ideas are almost certainly not an item of real conviction by Bush, but just something he thought would work politically, or at very best something that he's been sold on as a good idea, but not something that is an issue that he feels really deep down.