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So, overnight, Bush is all about ending our addiction to oil, when his family has made billions on the stuff the last few decades?

Yea, that really believeable.

And the fact this company had to hurry up and re-hire a bunch of employees they just let go to pretend everything is creamy is just too rich. My God, what a clusterf-ck this adm. is.

His words say one thing, but his massive $ to big oil says another thing. What they have proposed to techs like hydrogen are a complete laugh compared to the $ they heave at big oil. What an insult to our collective intelligence. Well, that is, to those of us who understand what is really happening. To those who are duped, I guess it isn't an insult


Jobs Cut at Energy Lab Restored Before Bush Visit
by Tom Doggett


www.today.reuters.com

The Energy Department said it has come up with $5 million to immediately restore jobs cut at a renewable energy laboratory President George W. Bush will visit on Tuesday, avoiding a potentially embarrassing moment as the president promotes his energy plan.

In his State of the Union speech last month, Bush called for the United States to use less Middle East oil and develop alternative energy sources, including renewable energy such as wind, solar power and biomass.

Bush proposed spending millions more dollars in renewable energy research. However, Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists questioned the administration's commitment when jobs were being eliminated at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado.

Bush will visit the lab on Tuesday to tout his proposal for more renewable energy research funding.

"The role of the government, at this point, is to continue to spend research dollars to help push (renewable energy) technologies forward ... to get these technologies to be even more competitive in the marketplace," Bush said Monday during a tour of a solar panel plant in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

To ensure the Colorado laboratory will have the people to carry out that research, the Energy Department transferred $5 million over the weekend to the Midwest Research Institute, the contractor that operates the renewable energy lab, to restore all the jobs cut earlier this month due to budget shortfalls.

"The action we are taking today will allow the dedicated employees at NREL to continue their work that will bring us great innovation in renewable energy technologies," Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said in a statement on Monday.

"The programs at NREL are critically important to realizing the President's vision to diversify and strengthen our nation's energy mix," Bodman said.

The Energy Department took the money from other accounts. The DOE said it will try to restore those funds by using money from several projects mandated by Congress in 2001 and 2002 "that have failed to make progress."

Bush's 2007 budget requests a 78 percent increase in solar energy research; a 65 percent boost in biomass research; and a 42 percent rise in hydrogen research, work that would be conducted at NREL.

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So your solution would be to throw more money at the problem?

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So, overnight, Bush is all about ending our addiction to oil, when his family has made billions on the stuff the last few decades?

Yea, that really believeable.

And the fact this company had to hurry up and re-hire a bunch of employees they just let go to pretend everything is creamy is just too rich. My God, what a clusterf-ck this adm. is.

His words say one thing, but his massive $ to big oil says another thing. What they have proposed to techs like hydrogen are a complete laugh compared to the $ they heave at big oil. What an insult to our collective intelligence. Well, that is, to those of us who understand what is really happening. To those who are duped, I guess it isn't an insult


Jobs Cut at Energy Lab Restored Before Bush Visit
by Tom Doggett

So, you want the government to force you into using renewable energy that comes with skyrocketing prices to use such technology?

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So, you want the government to force you into using renewable energy that comes with skyrocketing prices to use such technology?

I don't think that's a good argument. As more people buy hybrid cars and as more public funds are put into renewable energy research, new technology will become more affordable.

Bush's ties to big oil are clear. The question is whether he'll take his last few years in office and do something truly good for the country: move it towards new, clean energy policies.

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So, you want the government to force you into using renewable energy that comes with skyrocketing prices to use such technology?

In New Mexico we have wind farms. To use that form of power, the cost is 10% higher.