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Bush must be pissing himself laughing....

Pool Report #1
April 25, 2006

President Bush rode a 14- vehicle motorcade there and back to the Marriott Wardman to talk to the Renewable Fuels Association about energy conservation and other topics. En route, the motorcade passed the Exxon station next to the Watergate, where gas prices were $3.29, $3.39 and $3.49 a gallon. Just saying.

Event was open press.

Julie Mason
Houston Chron


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Bloody brilliant Georgie boy...

Never mind tho, plenty more where that came from....

same source.

lewis black (sp) did a thing on cheney and how he was a Big Oil CEO or something before he ran with bush. supposedly they have him a few million or so as a "farwell" gift for being such a nice CEO, he never gave it back.

so the dude in charge of our energy policy is chilling out with a few million bucks of oil money in his bank.


(may be old or inaccurate, to lazy to check this one.)

Edited, Thu Apr 27 03:02:14 2006 by bbking

The original internal combustion engine inveted by Mr. Rudolf Diesel was run on peanut oil, not fossil fuels. fact

It's been more than 100 years now that alternatives to gasoline have been known, readily available, and capable of fueling vehicles. Complaining that our dependence on fossil fuel has anything to do with this president or even the last 5 is nearsighted when you consider that strong alternatives have always existed don't you think?

You can change any diesel powered vehicle to run on vegetable oil. In fact you can take that greasy toxic goo that your local Waffle House spreads on their griddles(after use of course) and filter it for fuel yourself. Free gas with purchase of grease filter.

http://www.letsbombiran.com/

Wow. I guess there's not much point in bothering with facts, since you guys seem to buy any conspiracy theory that comes your way...

I'm not aware that Haliburton is an oil company. Additionally, he recieved that money as part of his pension with the company. Thirdly, since he knew it would be a conflict of interest (even though his retirement shares were granted prior to the 2000 election and the later decision by the Pentagon to grant Haliburton the contract for work in Iraq and Afghanistan), Cheney placed control of those options into a charity fund.

This is doubly amusing since the thread on this same page questioning Bush's taxes mentions Bush, but avoids mentioning Cheney. Why? Because Cheney earned 8 million dollars last year. 7 million was donated to charity. Basically, the guy is giving up 7 million a year to serve in public office. That's profits he'd have right now if he wasn't VP. But he's a greedy SOB, right? Sheesh.


The rest of the insinuation about energy is laughable. So. Oil prices go up and it's Bush's fault. Bush enacts a plan to lower oil prices and it's somehow *still* Bush's fault? Funny. Clinton didn't approve any funding for hydrogen fuel cell research. Bush did. We've seen more actual progress (as opposed to talk) on alternative fuels during Bush's term then any term previous to his. But you ignore all of that and continue on with your blanket assumptions that since he's a Republican and previously employed in the Oil industry, that this somehow automatically means he's against alternative fuels and is secretly in league with the evil oil companies in some kind of plot.


Hmmmm... Got any evidence for that besides your own bias? Didn't think so.

If they own the patent to the alternative fuel technology, wouldn't they make a bajillion dollars off cars that run on acorns instead of fossil fuel anyway? I mean, every acorn driven engine that gets built will be cash in their pocket.

Right on Joph, and also not to mention the huge positive effect it would have on the enviroment, because of the massive amounts of acorn producing oak trees that would have to be planted to harvest the acorns.

Ford then, instead of giving away promotions like 0% financing or "A Focus and a Dell", could just hand its customers a small potted oak tree to produce their very own acorns.

Also the squirrels and racoons would be very pleased.



Edited, Thu Apr 27 11:22:21 2006 by Redjed

There's always talk of an investigation into oil profits. It's an easy way to pretend the administration is doing something and is on your side without actually doing anything. For the sake of disclosure, I'll note that the Clinton administration did the same thing when gas prices spiked in the late 90's.

In a twist of kismet, I've just been conscripted by the company to research biodiesel fuels.

Hawaii sells both mixed and 100% bio at the pump in many areas. Alot more people there are converting over than on the mainland. For the consumer end of things you may find good info from a newspaper or local gov site.

I spent quite a bit of time to see if this was a viable alternative for my family. Being in Canada, the number one problem would be geling. However, I found a resource that indicated clearly that a 50% Bio-diesel and 50% petrol-diesel mix when temps are below 5 degrees celcius will stop clouding. This is because the commercial anti-fogging additives are very effective.