Bush: Gustav (Cat.2 storm, NOT a Cat. 4 or 5 as predicted) should prompt OK of more oil production

[DogPoundPup]

Source: USA Today

Bush said Tuesday that while it's too early to assess Hurricane Gustav's damage to U.S. oil infrastructure off the Gulf Coast, the storm should prompt Congress to OK more domestic oil production.

"One thing is for certain, when Congress comes back, they've got to understand that we need more domestic energy, not less," Bush said in the Roosevelt Room. "One place to find it is offshore America — lands that have been taken off the books, so to speak, by congressional law — and now they need to give us a chance to find more oil and gas here at home."

Bush, keeping a hands-on profile on the aftermath of the hurricane in contrast to the government's poor response to Katrina, met in the Roosevelt Room with Vice President Dick Cheney and about 20 advisers, including the secretaries of Interior, Transportation and Energy.

( HURRICANE GUSTAV: Weakened storm spared New Orleans, coast )

Preliminary indications were that Gustav caused little damage to onshore and offshore facilities, though the full impact likely won't be known for a couple of days. Some oil companies, rig owners and refiners were already putting equipment and people back in place to resume operations.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-09-02-bush-gustav_N.htm

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[DemoTex]

1. What kind of specious, delusional reasoning is that?

:wtf:

[Bob Dobbs]

2. The cocaine addict curing his addiction with a better cocaine supplier.

My coke problem is I don't have enough coke.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. Well, Hoss...

Sadly, it is the kind of reasoning we hired, twice and can't seem to get rid of fast enough.

I must say, I do enjoy hearing from those who voted for this demonstrable moron and who now wallow in buyer's remorse. Damn near the most fun I can have with my clothes on.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Ya gotta use republiconthink to follow my, um, logic. Smirk." - Commander AWOL

[yellerpup]

4. This isn't news!

Bush has always been an idiot! :rofl:

[Virginia Dare]

6. Is the asswipe actually taking credit for the downgrading of a hurricane?

is he actually using the fact that we barely missed having a catastrophic disaster as an excuse to drill for more oil in the Gulf Coast?

Good old shrubya he never fails us in upping the ante in idiocy and failure.

[pattmarty]

7. Well you dumbfuck, what about the next hurricane or the one after that?