Sigh

Fleischer said Bush will focus on “the longer term (solutions), rather than the political.”

This whole article is filled with rhetoric about long term solutions for the gas price hike. He refuses to put price controls on and even more suprisingly he refuses to eliminate the federal gasoline tax which is almost 19 cents per gallon. He’s so excited about tax cuts, so where is he on this?

What exactly are these long term solutions that he keeps touting that are so much better than the alternatives above? He hasn’t proposed any as far as I can see and I doubt they will be the kind of long term solutions that America really needs. Someone so ladden to the oil industry for financing has very little incentive to promote newer, cleaner, renewable technologies. I know these have been buzz words for the left for years, but it is really something that has to be done and I think most people would realize that this enormous price hike could be the kind of kick in the ass that the United States needs. Nothing short of the world actually running out of petroleum is going to make Bush realize we need another way to fuel our vehicles and keep the lights on.

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