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SOTU Pledges Not To Be Taken Literally?

Yeah, we're addicted to oil, but...

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February 2, 2006 2:39:00 AM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
Well, it appears that at least a portion of Bush's State of the Union was not meant to be taken literally.

Administration backs off Bush's vow to reduce Mideast oil imports
By Kevin G. Hall
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally.

What the president meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels could displace an amount of oil imports equivalent to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025.

But America still would import oil from the Middle East, because that's where the greatest oil supplies are.

The president's State of the Union reference to Mideast oil made headlines nationwide Wednesday because of his assertion that "America is addicted to oil" and his call to "break this addiction."

Bush vowed to fund research into better batteries for hybrid vehicles and more production of the alternative fuel ethanol, setting a lofty goal of replacing "more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025."

He pledged to "move beyond a petroleum-based economy and make our dependence on Middle Eastern oil a thing of the past."

Not exactly, though, it turns out.

"This was purely an example," Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said.

I wonder what other parts of the speech were not meant to be taken literally.

One thing that I always begrudingly admired about this guy was that he was, for the most part a straight talker. He may not be the smoothest talker in Washington, but he used to at least be viewed as honest. Sadly, those days are far in the past.
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davad70
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Reply #1 February 2, 2006 2:52:53 AM
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honest... politician...

hmm... I'm wondering if it is the politics, or the expectations that are unreasonable...
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Reply #2 February 2, 2006 3:10:52 AM
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I agree to a point, but it's not as if the pledge or the expectations are unreasonable on this matter.
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Reply #3 February 2, 2006 3:55:13 AM
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First of all, did Prs. Bush call it a vow or did the press? Second of all, Prs. Bush's Energy Secretary is not Prs. Bush. Only time will tell whether Prs. Bush meant what he said or not.

Is it really a big deal if a member of the president's cabinet doesn't think it should be taken literally?
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Reply #4 February 2, 2006 6:19:12 AM
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reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025


so if 10% of our oil currently comes from the middle east and we're gonna maybe cut that by 75% between now and 2025, no sense in jumpin the gun considering we can spend the next 20 years snoopin out them canadian and mexican wmds
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Reply #5 February 2, 2006 11:30:48 AM
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Second of all, Prs. Bush's Energy Secretary is not Prs. Bush. Only time will tell whether Prs. Bush meant what he said or not.


Being a member of Bush's cabinet, I would think he speaks for the President on matters related to energy, I would also think that Bush gets his information regarding energy from the sec of energy.

Whether it was a "pledge" or not is I guess subjective. Maybe goal would be a more accurate term.
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Reply #6 February 3, 2006 1:38:34 PM
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Perhaps he was subliminally talking not about oil but social security.
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