(The Shangri-Las)
Clearly president Bush is trying to seize an agenda and boost his cred and also fish for support.
But he's a lame duck on crutches.
The gas saving proposals were weak and mere rhetoric. I especially loved the 'we're going to look into price gouging!" Well, there, Mr. President, you might wish to start with big oil and their record profits. Just a hunch, but that might resonate better with the public than chasing gas stations and wholesalers.
Oh - And he's delaying the payback to the federal gas reserves till after the summer - see, some of the reserves flowed to the gas companies post Katrina. Anybody else think that this would PROFIT the gas companies since by then it's not inconceivable that the price of gas will have come down, and so replacing what they received will cost them less!!!?
And he's encouraging the energy companies to seek alternative energy sources. Yup. That'll help. In 10 to 20 years.
And let's cut the subsidies to the rich oil companies. Now there's a White House "Duh."
The sad fact is, he's not a leader, but he's our leader.
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