NationStates Jolt Archive

Simple really. I watched United States President George Bush make his State of the Union Adress recently. It seemed, to get right to the point, a little repetitive, but what I noticed were the Democrats and Republicans. Mostly, the "right" side of the room would rise to notice a key point in this spreech. What that was, was the seemingly bitter divsion of applause, while the "left" clapped politely, but remained seemingly silent. Perhaps this reveals american political "division" more than I have seen before? Anyway, a point which almost shocked me completely was Pres. Bush's proposal to eliminate America's oil "addiction," for foreign oil. I'm all for that. Cleaner burning, alternative fuel sources are the future, and this is something worth putting rescources towards (in my opinion). I did not prefer Pres. Bush's agressive stance toward Iran's president. Personally, I was hoping he would emphasize more on the international communities involvment in these tensions. Anyway, it was a good speech, he seemed more fluent in his general speech (as opposed to the sloppy presentation usually given) and I strongly support Mr. Bush.

He's mentioned preparations for avoiding future energy crises several times over the years. I do think he treats it as a respectfully high priority. I too liked his speech; it exhuded confidence, and trust in the abilities of the nation. I'm not sure if some of his mentioned goals (or hopes) will be attained as he mentioned, but not neccessarily by any fault of his. Partisan politics and slow-moving beaurocracy will make a couple of them a bit too difficult to accomplish in the full. But, they were pretty much all noble goals, and more power to whoever stands behind him to reach them. I could have elected a worse president.

Anyway, a point which almost shocked me completely was Pres. Bush's proposal to eliminate America's oil "addiction," for foreign oil. I'm all for that. Cleaner burning, alternative fuel sources are the future, and this is something worth putting rescources towards (in my opinion).

Lip service. Bush is in the pocket of too many oil execs and is a former oil exec himself. If there's any serious alternative fuel source research to be made, it won't be from a past or present oil whore in charge of the government.

If anything, alternative fuel research will only be used by car companies as a loophole to allow lowering their gas mileage. There is or was in market cars made with Flexible Fueled Engines that could use either gasoline or an alcohol-based fuel to run. However, there are no state-wide infrastructure for processing and delivering the alcohol fuel anywhere in the United States so far. So the unsuspecting customers were basically suckered into buying expensive gas guzzlers.

I agree....and don't agree with you, but that's the beauty of balanced debate, eh? Anyway, I haven't heared "him" in specific mention alternative energy, but it has been a "topic" of his administration. Just the fact that him, and not one of his subordanets mentioned this. I admire him, even for not being an american (soon to be).

If anything, alternative fuel research will only be used by car companies as a loophole to allow lowering their gas mileage. There is or was in market cars made with Flexible Fueled Engines that could use either gasoline or an alcohol-based fuel to run. However, there are no state-wide infrastructure for processing and delivering the alcohol fuel anywhere in the United States so far. So the unsuspecting customers were basically suckered into buying expensive gas guzzlers.
I imagine you've seen certain articles that might influence your thinking in this fashion .... i certainly have. *nods*