Bush Calls For Renewable Energy, Cuts Colorado Funding

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON -- Weeks after pledging major investments in renewable energy, President George W. Bush is calling for cuts at Colorado's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, drawing complaints Monday from two of the state's Democratic lawmakers.

A centerpiece of Bush's State of the Union speech this year was a 20 percent cut in gasoline use by 2017 made possible in part by increasing the use of renewable fuels.

Colorado's Democratic lawmakers criticized Bush's proposed budget, delivered to Congress on Monday, for increasing spending on fossil fuel and nuclear development while cutting the Energy Department's renewable research lab by 3 percent.

Bush's proposed budget would decrease funding for the Golden, Colo., lab to $181.5 million from $187.5 million, they said. The lab does the nation's primary research on renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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[superconnected]

1. Well the repugs ever figure it out...

[Wwagsthedog]

2. Saying * is an ostrich

is an insult to those dimwitted birds.

[gratuitous]

3. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also

Bush budget numbers:

For renewable energy research: $181,500,000 for all of 2008

For war and "defense": $2,000,000,000 per day

Any questions?