Clinton: Bush Energy Plan 'Dumb Economics'

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155083,00.html

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Former President Clinton (search) lashed out at the Bush administration's energy policies Friday, criticizing them as "dumb economics" during a wide-ranging speech to a friendly crowd at Brown University.

But Clinton encouraged Americans to support democracy in Iraq, and said they should encourage the Bush administration to work with the rest of the world in bringing peace to the region.

The former president said those who opposed going to war with Iraq had to put those feelings aside. "You should want it to work now," he said.

Clinton — received enthusiastically by more than 4,000 students, politicians and top state Democratic fundraisers — called Bush's energy policy selfish. "I also think it's really dumb economics," he said.

[Syrinx]

1. didn't Bush admit Thursday night they "we have no energy policy?" n/t

[TheDebbieDee]

3. During Thursday night's press conference, * blamed.....

Clinton for the fact that Americans are paying such high prices for gasoline.

He said that if America had had an energy policy ten years ago, we'd be reaping the benefits of cheap oil now!

[FreedomAngel82]

9. And here

they're always telling democrats to get plans. :eyes: Of course they don't. All they care about is getting the oil and their rich friends richer.

[coloradodem2005]

2. It's about time that Clinton take Bush to task.

[Blue_Roses]

4. there you go Clinton haters...

cause he still loves the Democratic party...LOL.

All those who say he and poppy make it a disgrace to be a Democrat because of their close bond...:rofl:

Sorry to say to you doubters, but Clinton is loyal to Democrats as the day is long...

Find a new puppet...:rofl:

Go Big Dog...you slam dunked again...lol..

[seabeyond]

5. "You should want it to work now,"

everyone wants it to works. we just KNOW it ISNT going to work NOW, or tomorrow or the next day

we know this administration doesnt have what it takes. they have screwed it up since well not sending in enough troups to stop the looting. and then selling out to corporations to take jobs from the iraqi's instead of letting them do it. and then soldiers being allowed to see all iraqi's as animals

bush cant/wont make it work. they dont have it in them

of course the lives time and money, everyone WANTS it to work

none of us thinks it CAN work

[Carolab]

7. Yeah. Maybe the Big Dawg should read this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=209x1701

[rawtribe]

6. Jimmy Carter 15 July, 1979

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jimmycartercrisisofconfidence.htm

The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.

What I have to say to you now about energy is simple and vitally important.

Point one: I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977-- never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980s, for I am tonight setting the further goal of cutting our dependence on foreign oil by one-half by the end of the next decade -- a saving of over four and a half million barrels of imported oil per day.

Point two: To ensure that we meet these targets, I will use my presidential authority to set import quotas. I’m announcing tonight that for 1979 and 1980, I will forbid the entry into this country of one drop of foreign oil more than these goals allow. These quotas will ensure a reduction in imports even below the ambitious levels we set at the recent Tokyo summit.

Point three: To give us energy security, I am asking for the most massive peacetime commitment of funds and resources in our nation’s history to develop America’s own alternative sources of fuel -- from coal, from oil shale, from plant products for gasohol, from unconventional gas, from the sun.

I propose the creation of an energy security corporation to lead this effort to replace two and a half million barrels of imported oil per day by 1990. The corporation will issue up to five billion dollars in energy bonds, and I especially want them to be in small denominations so average Americans can invest directly in America’s energy security.

Just as a similar synthetic rubber corporation helped us win World War II, so will we mobilize American determination and ability to win the energy war. Moreover, I will soon submit legislation to Congress calling for the creation of this nation’s first solar bank which will help us achieve the crucial goal of twenty percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000.

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Reagan put an end to this kind of talk, the rest is history.


:grr:

[kodi]

10. i watched that speech and knew its truth

had we treated energy policy as the moral equivalent of war, we would not have fought three of them since.

[pdurod1]

8. Any ideas?

1) move US towards using LED light bulbs. These use a fraction of the energy of incandecent and fluorescent bulbs.

Tax incentives??

2) Increase insulation (R-values) of new and existing structures.

Buildings require energy to heat and cool. Probably more than SUV's

Tax incentives --used to in the 70's (I think) even solar panels.

3) Buy a Hybrid car or truck. US automakers are gonna get spanked on this one too. Used to have tax incentives. (honda and toyota) $3K for a hybrid --not anymore.

Thought Gore and later Kerry had an agressive energy policy but we have oil men in the white house. Uhh more refineries, ANWR...