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Bush Urges Less Global Oil Use, as US Guzzles It

USA: July 8, 2005


WASHINGTON - While President George W. Bush is urging nations to use less oil, his administration has opposed major increases in US vehicle fuel standards that could save millions of barrels of oil a year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.


Speaking on Wednesday as the leaders of the major industrialized countries traveled to Scotland for a Group of Eight meeting, Bush said nations should develop alternative energy sources to oil and natural gas to help control global warming.
Climate change is a top issue at the G8 meeting. The United States, the world's largest oil consumer and the biggest spewer of total carbon dioxide emissions that heat the atmosphere, is the only one of the countries at the summit not to have signed the Kyoto treaty to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

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