Bush to Promote Hydrogen Fuel on Earth Day

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bush


ST. HELENA, Calif. - Unable to drive down high oil prices, President Bush is spending Earth Day promoting futuristic hydrogen fuel technology as a way to wean Americans from gas-guzzling vehicles.

After a bike ride near his Napa Valley resort Saturday morning, Bush planned to visit the California Fuel Cell Partnership in West Sacramento for a tour and speech on his energy plan.

The plan does not include any measures that would reduce gasoline prices in the short term, the White House acknowledges. But with Republicans worried that the increasing cost to drive could cost them in the voting booth this year, Bush said he understands Americans are hurting.

"I know the folks here are suffering at the gas pump," Bush told an audience Friday in San Jose. "Rising gasoline prices is like taking a — is like a tax, particularly on the working people and the small business people."

But to address the immediate problem, Bush offered only a pledge that "if we find any price gouging it will be dealt with firmly."

[Botany]

1. Please

"if we find any price gouging it will be dealt with firmly." GWB

"Be werry werry quite I am going wabbit hunting." Elmer Fudd Rabbit Hunter

[TAPat]

2. Here's my one word - I say it over and over -

asshole

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. And here:

Bush Seemingly Resigned to High Gas Prices
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060422/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

What an idiot.

[radfringe]

31. a disclaimer crawler should be shown with this

Not to be taken literally...

[WePurrsevere]

4. He pushs hydrogen fuel as he burns up how much dino fuel in Air Force 1?

"... like a tax, particularly on the working people & the small business people" yeah... and a big fat bonus in the already well lined pockets of your OIL buddies and rich oil stockholders. You make like you care but the fact is you don't feel it and your buddies are happily rolling in the dough so you don't give a rat's furry backside or you would DO something to lower the prices and help those that need help.

:nuke:

[Demeter]

5. Can I Be the First To Say: He's Full of Hot Air!

[MichiganVote]

7. Its his energy policy

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. He passes gas everytime he speaks.

[0007]

11. That's all he has. He rather pass gas than a stone.

[bluedog]

8. FORGOTTEN ENERGY SOURCE

FORGOTTEN ENERGY SOURCE


If fuel could be distilled from bullshit

Bush could produce enough energy to power the entire country.


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[kurth]

9. He needs to stop polluting the Earth with all that crap coming out of

his mouth.

[kineneb]

10. Bush- new energy source for hot air balloons!

Just attach Shrub to one of those hot air balloons that go over the Napa Valley and keep him talking his usual nonsense...the balloon will have an almost endless supply of hot air.

Hubby suggests several more for Congress.

Oh, look, a low-cost energy solution!

:evilgrin:

[young_at_heart]

12. Typical.....we'll solve the problem later

"If we find any price gouging it will be dealt with firmly"....who believes that? Why wasn't this issue "dealt with" long ago....it's not like it just jumped out at us?

[drdtroit]

13. He's been propogandizing about H since 2000

With NO intentions of EVER doing anything positive in that direction.
Truly the largest P(iece)O(f)S(hit) to ever be chosen as POS!

[kysrsoze]

18. Exactly. All he does is say the word "Hydrogen" every six months

Meanwhile, where is the money to fund hydrogen research? Nowhere.

[saltpoint]

14. I doubt if many Californians feel the president has a clue in hell about

energy.

His promise to watch for price-gauging at the pumps reassures no one that their short-term problem of affordable commutes is solvable, and then there's the long-term problem of peak oil.

If this administration would spend more time focusing on renewable energy sources and conservation than it does on smearing its opponents, suppressing dissent, and lying, we'd all be a lot better off.

[Ian David]

15. You know what it takes? A Presidential Executive Order capping prices

Followed by a resignation from office, and preferably soon followed by his ritual suicide on live television.

[saltpoint]

17. That would go a long way toward a righting of wrongs, I agree.

I'm not always around a tv set, Ian. If this gets scheduled, PM me at once, ok?

And you're invited to the big party at my place afterward. French wine and only French wine will be the beverage served.

_ _ _

I was thinking about the president driven from his intended locus yesterday by protestors. Basically, all those folks were trying to tell him is he needs to re-think his positions, just as the millions of people who flooded the streets of world capitals were trying to tell him in the weeks leading up to the bombing of Baghdad. It's like talking to a block of cement. Still, I love those protestors, because THEY were doing their jobs as citizens and patriots, unlike Bush.

It's frustrating to have someone like Bush in the White House, but my instinct tells me his year 2006 is not going to be a fortunate one for him and his administration. This presidency is under considerable strain. I think it's essentially over with. A blue House in November increases the odds for impeachment proceedings, too.

It could get interesting.

[truthisfreedom]

16. bush to burp and fart on beer day

they trot out the old idiot for anything they think they can steal from Dems.

on edit: honestly, we should focus on embarrassing him for 6 years of no interest in solar or wind power.

[lovuian]

19. Bush acts to reduce oil costs as price hits $75 barrel

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=076d59ff90dd301a

With crude oil prices topping $75 a barrel, President Bush wants Congressional action on a plan he says will reduce energy costs.

Opposition Democrats are using record high prices to criticize the president's energy policy, as they look ahead to this year's Congressional elections.

President Bush wants Congress to act on an energy initiative that he says will change the way Americans power their homes, businesses and cars.

He wants more funding for hydrogen fuel cells, which emit no pollution, and are more efficient than gasoline-driven engines. The plan also backs more research into electric hybrid vehicles that he says could allow many drivers to make their daily commute, without burning any gasoline.

snip...
The president is under pressure to do something about higher energy costs at a time of record low pubic approval ratings.

A Washington Post/ABC News poll says 70 percent of Americans say higher gas prices are causing them financial hardship. And most are blaming President Bush with 74 percent disapproving of how he is handling those higher prices.
more...
This is just smoke from Bush but see how mad the Americans!!!

[onehandle]

20. So he's doing nothing. Got it.

See you in November, President Rove.

[TexasLawyer]

21. The benefits of this program

should start kicking in... oh,....around 2012 or so!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

22. How much is the government...

Buying up from the markets and squirreling away in salt caverns in Louisiana, still? In a program that was given to the Hunt Brothers, I might add.

[strategery blunder]

23. Bu$h energy plan=shovel more money to Exxon

If you aren't attending the Bu$h fundraising dinners, you're not counted in the poll numbers. Or the ballot box, for that matter. No doubt this "funding" for fuel cells will find its way into some grubby Republican's pocket--it's standard operating procedure for the bastards.:grr:

[DianaForRussFeingold]

24. He wants the money , with no results for 30 years.

He wants more funding for hydrogen fuel cells. like His private' Social security plan this will take 20 or 30 years..:spank: Just another way to help his corporate puppet masters and not the American people.We need real answers right now,not years from now.We need results do right away.We don't need a line of Bull****. :banghead:

[IChing]

25. Picture of *ush and the guy that will solve the problem

[dweller]

26. he's just jacking US

while he's supposed to be jawboning the Saudis.

Impeach the *moron.
dp

[barb162]

27. we should have started on this YEARS ago

now the people with the gas guzzlers whine to high heaven. It's just crazy

[last1standing]

28. What a misleading headline.

He isn't taking action, he's making a wishlist. bush* "wants congressional action on a plan". That's about as useful as wishing the sun wouldn't set. Then to "want" congress to enact a plan that can't have any foreseeable benefit within the next 10-12 years to combat a problem that is approaching emergency status today, is downright incompetence.

I've posted it before and I'll post it again. It's not the lying, it's the incompetence, Stupid!

[VegasWolf]

29. Be a big help if he would just STFU about Iran, especially now that Russia

has told Bush that under no circumstances can he attack Iran.

[cosmicdot]

30. is he saying the Energy bill he signed last August doesn't help?

Cheney's secret energy task force plan ... currently on Rumsfeld's desk cc: Rice ... doesn't either?

Isn't the Great Decider a reformer with results???

Bush Signs Energy Bill, Cheers Steps Toward Self-Sufficiency
Measure Includes Billions in Tax Breaks for Industry

By Jim VandeHei and Justin Blum
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, August 9, 2005; Page A03

ALBUQUERQUE, Aug. 8 -- President Bush signed the first national energy legislation in more than a decade on Monday, hailing the measure as a smart way to make Americans more secure and less dependent on foreign oil.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/08/AR2005080800124.html


I'm channeling FDR and his Brain Trust cabinet as I type -- they (and the government) were the think tank.