WH Backs Off Bush's SOTU Vow To Reduce Mideast Oil Imports(flip flop)

[KittyWampus]

DAMN! that was fast... guess bush wants to use that French style nuance...

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.

[Arkana]

1. Damn, they backed off fast.

Guess they realized that people might just realize the sickening hypocrisy of the statement.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Was that a flip or a flop? n/t

[KittyWampus]

6. first it was a flop of a speech and then it was a flip and a flop

[MakeItSo]

3. Their pimps were threatening to beat 'em up

Back on your knees, Chimp.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. He made his masters mad

[Kadie]

5. "the president didn't mean it literally"

:wtf:

[Feenicks]

9. At least they didn't say "the president didn't mean it

literary" (pet peeve):)

Actually, that's too bad. That would be an admirable goal. But of course in the mean time, we need to pump ANWR :shrug:

[FreedomAngel82]

7. LOL, 2025!

LOL! Not him that's for sure!

[tabasco]

8. I'm shocked.

I can't believe Bush would lie about anything to do with oil.