It's like Orwell, but for reals
Tuesday night GW talks about us needing to go to rehab to cure our oil addiction. Among the alternatives he offered up were wind and ethanol. Yesterday, the Sec. of Energy said GW was just joshin' about detaching from the Mid-East oil tit.
Today, the NYT shows that they apparently didn't mean it about the ethanol and wind energy either.
A taste:
"The Energy Department will begin laying off researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the next week or two because of cuts to its budget.
A veteran researcher said the staff had been told that the cuts would be concentrated among researchers in wind and biomass, which includes ethanol. Those are two of the technologies that Mr. Bush cited on Tuesday night as holding the promise to replace part of the nation's oil imports."
It's not about speaking truthfully. It's about truthiness.
A veteran researcher said the staff had been told that the cuts would be concentrated among researchers in wind and biomass, which includes ethanol. Those are two of the technologies that Mr. Bush cited on Tuesday night as holding the promise to replace part of the nation's oil imports."
It's not about speaking truthfully. It's about truthiness.
posted by stephen @ 9:41 AM
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1 Comments:
Though here's the thought that occurred to me this morning, thinking about needing oil/fossil fuels to produce these other alternative fuels: once those programs got off the ground, couldn't you then use that fuel (ethanol, methane, hydrogen, whatever) to produce/refine that fuel? Isn't that what we're basically doing now with the fossil fuels?
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