Bush to call for curb in gasoline consumption

[The Straight Story]

Bush to call for curb in gasoline consumption
In speech, president hopes to balance Iraq policy with other initiatives

WASHINGTON - In his first State of the Union address to a Democratic-controlled Congress, President Bush is calling for Americans to slash gasoline consumption by up to 20 percent by 2017.

Bush envisions the goal being achieved primarily through a sharp escalation in the amount of ethanol and other alternative fuels that the federal government mandates must be produced. The rest would come from raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars, Joel Kaplan, White House deputy chief of staff, said in advance of Bush's Tuesday night speech to a joint session of Congress.

The president is proposing to set the amount of ethanol and other alternative fuels to be blended into the fuel supply at 35 billion gallons by 2017, up from 7.5 billion gallons in 2012. He also wants to expand the standard to include not just ethanol but a wide range of oil alternatives, such as biodiesel, methanol, butanol and hydrogen, Kaplan said.

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[hatrack]

1. Another non-answer to a very real problem

Pretty much what I had expected from President Pantload.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. I think I am reducing my exposure to **

by a further 20%.

That means I will have to go out of my way to even think of him.

[bahrbearian]

3. 6 years and this is his plan? Burn more coal?

[Bluestar]

4. How about curbing your use of Air Force One

And then you can hide out in your White House hole like the stinking rat you are. You will save fuel, and save the American public the pain of looking at your ugly smirk face as you run around the country trying to convince us that your lies are the truth.