by
mjohnson
@ 2006-02-09 - 17:59:10
My mother always told me if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all. I have to admit to applying this advice, at best, sparingly throughout my life and in relation to George W Bush not at all. However the man has at long last allowed me to say something my Mother would approve of. Take a look at the following quotes lifted from Georgies State of the Union address.
Our third goal is to promote energy independence for our country, while dramatically improving the environment. (Applause.) I have sent you a comprehensive energy plan to promote energy efficiency and conservation, to develop cleaner technology, and to produce more energy at home.
Tonight I'm proposing $1.2 billion in research funding so that America can lead the world in developing clean, hydrogen-powered automobiles.
The fact that these words come from the mouth of the worlds most powerful man means they have a real chance of happening and represent a significant U turn. Why is this failed oil barren moving away from oil? Simple answer; his war in Iraq has failed to get him the influence and security he needs to secure a future for an oil based economy. Once a failed oil barren always a failed oil barren.
The cost of the Iraq war is so large that it has long ceased being comprehensable in dollar terms let alone human costs. Take a look at this qoute from Tuesdays Guardian online (link at the end):
The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
The cost of the Iraq war to America has and will continue to be astronomical and this is proving that however much Bush would like to control the world's oil reserves he can't, even with an enormous army and all the weaponary money can buy. America used the bulk of it's own oil up long ago and it's going to have to start getting used to it.
The war has cost over a thousand times more than his Hydrogen car project, a bargain, and nobody dies. If only someone had told bush before the war. America could have been selling Sadam hydro-cars by now.
Economics is the bottom line. Wind and solar power are at last becoming economically viable and are being adopted all over the world to suplement the income of land owners, farmers and ranchers.(see BBC link) Our ultimately inevitable future of renewable energy is at long last becoming something more than a pipe dream and its at least partially due to Kids with patchy beards in a far away country who were prepared to blow themselves and their country men up to scuper the ambitions of George W.
BBC article on economically viable green energy in the States
Quoted Guardian article on the cost of the war in Iraq.
State of the Union speech transcript
