Martini Republic » Reducing dependence on Middle East oil chimerical goal: "maybe his pledge to push renewable energy and cut dependence on Big Oil is just another case of Bush saying one thing, and doing the exact opposite.

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.

Ah! The great dissembler!"

(Via Martini Republic.)