A qoute from the article:
Mr. Bush's comments, while similar to remarks he made shortly after the disruption from Hurricane Katrina pushed gasoline prices sharply higher, were particularly notable because the administration has long emphasized new production over conservation. It has also opted not to impose higher mileage standards on automakers.
In 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney said, 'Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it cannot be the basis of a sound energy policy.' Also that year, Ari Fleischer, then Mr. Bush's press secretary, responded to a question about reducing American energy consumption by saying 'that's a big no.'
'The president believes that it's an American way of life,' Mr. Fleischer said.
It finally appears that conservation is on the President's radar! Yet, what will truly cause people to conserve is the expense and not a plea from the government. Could it be that the American way of life is wrong? What do you think?
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I always hear in my college courses that Americans, per capita, use something like six times the resources of any other people group on the planet.
If that's true, it's a pretty good sign we're a wasteful culture...
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