"Changing The Subject, A Failed Oilman Talks About Failed Oil"

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http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/2006_02.php

The Permian Basin POTUS, beating Punxsutawney Phil to the punch by a little more than 24 hours, stuck his head out in public last night, saw the threatening shadow of GOP defeat this fall, and proclaimed something that we already know: We're "addicted to oil."

The dreaded "peak oil" theory, ignored by most of the GOP until now, finally rated a peek by the Pennsylvania Avenue groundhog. But this one's a bad movie: When we woke up this morning, George W. Bush was still president.

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Bush and his handlers paid no attention to fellow Republican Bartlett for the past year. So you know they are now desperate to change the subject from Iraq, Wampumgate, and other scandals when the president himself starts preaching doom about oil.

Unfortunately, it was the Bush regime's addiction to oil that helped lead it to concoct the rationale to invade Iraq and enrich Dick Cheney's oilfield-services company, Halliburton. And it was Bush and the GOP who pushed for the SUV tax breaks. Who are the addicts?