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Dear President Weakling
It’s unbelievably frustrating for me to see our 43rd president once again grabbing our collective ankles for the Saudis. This pathetic pleading to increase production to help our economy is weak and misguided. The response, “we’ll increase production if you increase demand” provides all the illumination we need to see their objectives.
Dear President Weakling Bush,
Here is what a strong leader would do. Thank the Saudis for giving us the incentive to wean down our dependence on resources from sponsors of terrorists. Tell Big Oil that they have a choice: dump their record profits into funding efficient and alternative energy or have the government direct the research by taxing all of it. Provide significant incentives for energy efficiency. For example 10% of price tax credits for >40MPG, 20% for >50, etc up to 60 MPG. Fund this with tax penalties for gas guzzlers (10% < 30 MPG, etc). We have the technology, we can make it better.
America is a strong country with amazing capital, business, and intellectual resources. Give us a mandate to become energy independent and we’ll restore our leadership. Personally, I’m tired of watching you be a Saudi lap dog.
As yourself, what would Steve Austin do?
May 21, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Do you think Mr. Bush is realizing the results of his actions in 2003?
The electric cars that California required in 2003 were destroyed on Bush’s watch. He did nothing to save them, in fact he performed actions to expedite their destruction. His solution to high gas prices, go drill for more oil, not encourage the development of alternate energy i.e. solar, wind, wave power. Not get cars on the road that do not need to burn fuel.
He could have had a press conference, announced what the car maker were doing and asked them to stop. (This is the limit of what he could do.) But instead he joined the law suit to force CARB to repeal its zero emissions mandate. What do you expect from Mr. Clueless who in January never heard that gas was going to be $4.00 a gallon by summer?