"Bush pushes ethanol despite effect on food costs"
"by James Gerstenzang, Los Angeles Times | May 3, 2008
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. - President Bush yesterday defended his emphasis on ethanol to help the nation meet its energy needs, even though increased production of the corn-based biofuel has been blamed for contributing to sharp increases in food prices.
"As you know, I'm an ethanol person," he said, explaining his belief that it can help reduce US dependence on oil. "It makes sense for America to be growing energy."
The president made his comments during a 20-minute speech and a rare, lengthy question-and-answer session with employees of a high-tech manufacturer.
On the day the government announced the loss of 20,000 payroll jobs in April, Bush said he recognized that the nation was in a difficult period, "but this economy is going to come home."
Like chickens to roost!!!!
He also chastised Congress for blocking his initiatives, including his plan to open Alaska lands and coastal waters to oil and gas exploration, a stalled free trade agreement with Colombia, and his proposal to overhaul the government's mortgage program.
As his final term nears its end, he also shifted into a reflective mien, saying to a worker in Dallas with whom he was conversing in a demonstration of a videoconferencing system: "Tell everybody down there, in about 10 months, I'm coming home."
It is EIGHT MONTHS, asshole, as in 8!!!
Or does HE KNOW SOMETHING WE DON'T?
Either way, he ought to be headed to a JAIL CELL!!!!
With that end in sight, the president's remarks brought into focus the newly troubling issues he faces: the economy, energy costs, and now, suddenly, food prices.
The president for several years has been promoting the use of ethanol, which is largely made from corn, to alleviate the nation's shortage of domestically produced energy. But critics have focused on the new demand for corn as a factor in driving up food prices.
Bush acknowledged that ethanol has contributed to higher food prices, but insisted that it was not the main reason.
And yet the government keeps paying the farmers to make the stuff so they can store it in vats in the Midwest!!
Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!
And readers, I NEVER LIKED the IDEA of BURNING OUR FOOD from the GET-GO!!!
STOO-PID, unless you are working on the globalist plan for world population reduction and domination!!!
He also listed increased energy costs, which affect transportation and fertilizer prices; drought and other weather-related problems; and increased demand stemming from greater prosperity in once-poor nations. He noted that the middle class in India has grown to 350 million, more than the population of the United States.
Noting the four-month downward employment trend after 52 months of growth, Bush said yesterday's report was "a sign that the economy is not as robust as any of us would like."
But, he said, the economic stimulus program, which is just now sending rebate checks and electronic payments to taxpayers, "hasn't really kicked in yet."
The president, who appeared to be surprised two months ago when told gasoline appeared headed for $4 a gallon, said, "I know you have to pay more at the fuel pump than you want."
But he needn't worry; all that fuel he burned up jetting out there?
YOU and I PAID that TAB!!!! Funny how shutting down the war machine and wasteful politicians never gets mentioned in the "environmental" or "oil debate."
Sort of tells you what a frauds they are, doesn't it?
Blaming Congress for blocking efforts to expand US oil and gas production by allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, for example, he said the nation needed to move away from "an energy policy that prohibits America from finding oil on its own land."
"If Congress is truly interested in helping relieve the price of gasoline, they would recognize" that the country needed to drill for oil and gas in areas that have been off-limits largely for environmental reasons, and would encourage the construction of oil refineries.
Bush spoke at World Wide Technology Inc., which he had planned to visit in October 2007. He postponed the visit when he flew instead to Southern California to view devastation from wildfires. The company, on the outskirts of St. Louis, provides information technology to the government and private industry, particularly in the telecommunications field.
What, they gonna get retro immunity now for lip-locking W's cock?
In 2006, according to the White House, it became the first minority-owned company with more than $2 billion in sales, and reported sales of more than $2.5 billion last year. In seven years it has added more than 500 employees."
Oh, that explains why so many people in the crowd were not applauding!!!!
Assault on My Senses
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