President's Scheduling Staff Suffer TreeHugger Alien Invasion
by on 05.18.05
Never would I have imagined that President Bush would seek a photo-opportunity at a biodiesel plant. But from CNN we have the following report of a photo op from a few days ago: "Bush flew here (to West Point, Virginia), about 30 miles from Richmond, to visit a production facility for biodiesel, an alternative fuel made from soybeans that is cleaner-burning and American-made, but carries a higher price tag that regular diesel fuel. It is often blended with conventional transportation fuels as an extender".
Local papers reported that "before his speech, the president got a demonstration of how biodiesel is made -- and how cleanly it burns in an engine. Bush was given a white handkerchief that had been held on an exhaust pipe of a revved-up 18-wheeler, and deemed it clean enough to hold up to his nose....President Bush touted biodiesel as an option to help reduce dependence on foreign oil, saying "...we must develop promising new sources of energy, such as hydrogen, ethanol or biodiesel." This show of support comes as the National Biodiesel Board (NBB), the American Soybean Association and others call for passage of a Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) and an extension of the biodiesel tax incentive"".
A few days later Presdident said America should help growing fuel consumers like China and India use energy more efficiently in order to reduce the global demand for oil. Explaining further he said, "...we must be better conservers of energy. And we can use technology in a wise way to encourage conservation.
Biodiesel? Helping developing nations reduce demand for oil? Conservation a domestic priority? Could the President have been reading TreeHugger? Nah. Must have been an alien invasion of Whitehouse event planners.
Based on previous experience, what you'd expect is something a bit more like this.
But if those aliens go undetected, maybe next we'll be hearing about the need for more bicycle paths. We can dream right?
by: John Laumer
Ha he! Yes, a very strange turn of events there. I'm sure a bike path initative is just around the corner...
Grist had something about this recently:
http://www.grist.org/news/daily/2005/05/17/
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) was not: "No photo-op can hide the fact that the Bush energy plan gives 90 percent of its tax breaks to big oil and gas and other fossil fuels, and less than 10 percent to alternative sources of energy."
Bush is stupid for not accepting the biodiesel , all bush wants is for the world to gain more sympathy everytime there is a terrorist attact united states such as 911 America gains more sympathy from the world so america can hog more oil in the middle east. America is addicted to energy and oil. Bush should have accepted the biodiesel plan or any alternative energy source for energy that does not involve oil. Because america needs to realize that oil is not even neccessary to engine anything. It never was supposed to. It is terrible for the enviroment.
Its rediculous !!!!
In other parts of the world it is normal and usual for sporatic energy outages such as the electrical power. Other countries are used to limited amounts of energy and have occational outages. But if America woke up and their garage door didn't start that is a cause for panic. Its rediculous . America is lazy and to open your garage door with a button is sad and pathedic. Also there is too much obsession for lawn care her e. people need to get a push mower instead of a Gas powered lawn mower. Lazy. I wish America would stop their obsession for energy ,oil and Refridgeration. Leaf blowers in america are the most Unneccesary Health disease causing machines.
His american way! Is destroying the plant's ecosystem even more .
I wonder how people in major cities in america would react if they woke up and found no more water comming out of their sinks.