we need to apologize for THIS?!

So Sorry
So very sorry. Haven't seen such genuflecting since we had to beg for our spy plane back from the Chinese. Or, maybe, since that time a bunch of rich Texans were going for a joy ride in one of our subs and killed about 10 people on a Japanese fishing boat.

Diplomatically, Mr. Bush's ambitious call for the replacement of 75 percent of the United States' Mideast oil imports with ethanol and other energy sources by 2025 upset Saudi Arabia, the main American oil supplier in the Persian Gulf. In an interview on Wednesday, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Prince Turki al-Faisal, said he would have to "seek an explanation" from Mr. Bush.

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I heard a story related to this on NPR last night saying that Brazil has been converting to ethanol for decades and now almost all of the cars there can run on either ethanol or gasoline. The reporter was astonished at this and the people there were equally astonished that this would be so unusual for him.
Maybe someday we'll have someone in power who is actually looking out for our country's best interests, instead of being in the pocket of big oil.
Obviously, oil is a limited resource and we need to do something soon or we will become a third world country.