NYT: Bush to Tour Hurricane-Damaged Region (article notes trip fuel use)

[DeepModem Mom]

NOTE: Toward the end of this article, the fuel consumption involved in these Bush trips is discussed.


Bush to Tour Hurricane-Damaged Region
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 27, 2005

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush was getting a personal look at Hurricane Rita's damage to U.S. energy resources with a visit to the birthplace of the modern oil industry.

Bush planned to receive a briefing on hurricane damage Tuesday in the port city of Beaumont, Texas, where the Spindletop well erupted a century ago and created the Gulf of Mexico's oil boom. The city is now home to refineries that turn oil into gasoline, many of which were knocked out of power by the storm.

"We're not sure yet the full extent of the damage," the president, a former oilman, said Monday after a closed-door meeting with his secretaries of energy and the interior.

After his meeting in Beaumont, Bush was to get an aerial tour of the Texas-Louisiana border area where Rita blew ashore, then meet with Louisiana officials in Lake Charles, La....

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The White House...will be looking at ways to conserve (fuel), press secretary Scott McClellan said, although that didn't include curtailing the president's travel plans. Tuesday marked the president's seventh trip to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of two devastating hurricanes in less than a month....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush.html

[rodeodance]

1. Msnbc this moring also mentioned the fuel-and all the vehicles that

need to go along with Jr on this 9th trip.

[opihimoimoi]

2. What has been the results of Their Looking for ways to CONSERVE?

So Far Nothing....

Where is the CONSERVATION DEPT and what the HELL THEY DOING?

[ninkasi]

6. Oh,they don't have to conserve

Conservation is for us peons. The rich don't have to sacrifice anything, not their children, their money, or their way of life. That burden falls upon the rest of us.

[2Design]

3. continues to waste money and resources for marketing his failures

he is such a waste of money

[ROakes1019]

4. Keith Olbermann

KO said no situation room is safe from Bush. This is almost as good as Hightower's comment at the march that Bush is like a sandflea on steroids. He's like a dancing doll, all over the place.

[Javaman]

5. a good leader always leads by example...

hence, it explains the mess we are in.

colossal racist failure*.

[amandabeech]

7. KKKarl is trying to keep * away from the liquor cabinet during the daytime

n/t