Bush - no idea on price of gas, clueless on oil impact

This is really something to observe because besides not having any clue about the price of gas for Americans - which is important enough for a President to know these days - he is laughing about it. What a joker Dear Leader can be. He starts off by pitching our Phil Gramm-John McCain favorite - psychology - as the lead reason for our problems today. Right. As if years of thumbing his nose at conservation and suggesting that anyone who bothered was not quite macho enough. Bush speaks as though he has been the governor of Texas, with no control over the national energy plan. Can he ever accept responsibility for anything? Ever? He is talking as though he is just another casual observer and not the President.

The Big Oil lapdogs talk about changing the psychology by drilling, so why the constant hesitation to promote real conservation and real investment in alternative energies. I don't disagree with him that whatever we do will take years so who wants to be ten years down the road, still tied to unstable countries who pump oil when we could bring new technologies onshore? This is jobs, this is investment money this is tax dollars and it's the future. More oil pumping is throwing money at the past. What kind of economic sense does it make to throw more money at old technology? How short sited is that? Why be an also-ran when we can become the leader for the future? Just because the GOP is shaking in their boots about our ability to lead doesn't mean everyone should go along with such cowardice.