In one of the most rib tickling, knee slapping bizarre things of late,
old dimestore Bushy is pushing COAL as the coming thing for energy.
Yes, Bushy takes us back to the 18th and 19th century using dirty, environmentally dangerous coal solutions. Yep, that'll take care of the problem King George...now, we will have a steady stream of fuel for all our coal powered SUVs, our coal powered computers, televisions, traffic lights, and all the rest of our coal based technology.
Hats off to ya on this one King George the Cowardly!
"We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 20, 2005
http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~2844813,00.html
"Thompson reacts to Bush press conference
By James Faulk The Times-Standard
Democratic Congressman Mike Thompson said he saw some good and a lot bad in President George Bush's prime-time press conference Thursday.
"I was really impressed with one thing that he said," Thompson said.
Reached by phone in Washington, D.C., the St. Helena Democrat critiqued Bush's proposals for Social Security and an energy plan, but complimented the president for separating himself from those in the Republican Party who sought to connect a vote up or down on judicial nominees to religion.
"These guys were trying to connect Christianity and religion to voting for or against nominees," he said.
On Social Security, Thompson said little new was revealed in the press conference. He floated the proposal on benefit cuts for wealthier Social Security recipients, Thompson said, but the demarcation between rich and poor is not clear.
"I'm not sure what wealthy means," Thompson said.
Some analyses of the president's remarks suggest when he says he's going to hold harmless anybody who is in the lower end of the income scale and only cut benefits to the rich, the reductions would actually impact the lower middle class, Thompson said.
That is, people who make as little as $20,000, he said.
Thompson reiterated his opposition to any effort to privatize the program. For a real fix, Thompson said both sides need to work together.
"My position has always been that we need nonpartisan facts and a bipartisan solution," he said. "We need to all be working from the same sheet of paper ... and we all need to be at the table."
On Bush's energy proposals, Thompson was skeptical.
"He really didn't say much," he said.
His new and innovative energy solutions depend on coal and other fossil fuels.
"That's not the energy of the future, especially for those of us who live in California's 1st Congressional District," he said.
Both Humboldt State University's Schatz Energy Lab and University of California at Davis are on the cutting edge of new and renewable fuels, Thompson said. We need to cut our ties to foreign oil and develop alternative energy sources, he said.
"Not only does that save energy, but it deals with the negatives of fossil fuels," Thompson said. "Not only does that cut our ties to foreign interests, it's a job creator."
And conservation is never a part of Bush's plans, he said.
"He doesn't generally talk about conservation," Thompson said. "It's not something that's high on his list as we saw in the Klamath River. We still can't get the administration to move for the fish."