bush was just kidding!

Bush's big SOTU promise to reduce dependence on foreign oil? Never mind.

Even for Bush, this is absolutely unbelievable.

One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally....

The president's State of the Union reference to Mideast oil made headlines nationwide Wednesday because of his assertion that "America is addicted to oil" and his call to "break this addiction."

Bush vowed to fund research into better batteries for hybrid vehicles and more production of the alternative fuel ethanol, setting a lofty goal of replacing "more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025."

He pledged to "move beyond a petroleum-based economy and make our dependence on Middle Eastern oil a thing of the past."

Not exactly, though, it turns out.

"This was purely an example," Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said.

Fortunately, the war on chimera is still in play.

(Americablog)
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Of course, he doesn't want to piss off all of his friends in big oil, and of course, it doesn't matter if he tells the truth in his speeches - no one will call him on it!
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