Bush on reduction of ME Oil - he didn't mean it.

The best news organization in Washington, Knight-Ridder, published the follow-up on Bush's SOTU promise to cut oil imports from the middle east by 75% by 2025. He didn't mean it "literally."

One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally.
What the president meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels could displace an amount of oil imports equivalent to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025.
But America still would import oil from the Middle East, because that's where the greatest oil supplies are.

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Bush vowed to fund research into better batteries for hybrid vehicles and more production of the alternative fuel ethanol, setting a lofty goal of replacing "more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025."
He pledged to "move beyond a petroleum-based economy and make our dependence on Middle Eastern oil a thing of the past."
Not exactly, though, it turns out.
"This was purely an example," Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said.

So let's watch the budget and see what our liar-in-chief really meant. Apparently Bush uses words strictly for their impact on his audience, but beyond that impact, they have no real meaning or truth behind them.

The goal of the State of the Union speech last night was not to tell Americans what future policies were going to be, but rather to convince his base not to abandon him this year.

Only anti-social psychotics use words this way. They'll say anything to avoid an immediate failure, but the words do not actually make a commitment of future behavior on their part that they consider binding. The rest of us call this "lying."