Posted by Declan on April 3, 2007, at 14:52:57
In reply to Re: Technological Solutions » Declan, posted by fayeroe on April 3, 2007, at 14:34:14
From "The Right Man" by David Frumm
"I once made the mistake of suggesting to Bush that he use the phrase 'cheap energy' to describe the name of his energy policy. He gave me a sharp, squinting look, as if trying to decide whether I was the stupidest person he'd heard from all day or only one of the top five. Cheap energy, he answered, was how we got into this mess. Every year, from the early 1970s to the mid 1990s, American cars had burned less and less oil per mile travelled. Then in about 1995 that progress had stopped. Why? He answered his own question: because of the gas-guzzling SUV. And what had made the SUV possible? This time I answered 'Um, cheap energy?'. He nodded at me. Dismissed."
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