George W. Bush: 'Diversify Away From Oil'

McClatchy:

DALLAS -- As the U.S. Gulf Coast battled a massive oil spill, former President George W. Bush told the American Wind Energy Association conference here today, "It's in our economic interests that we diversify away from oil."

"It's in our environmental interest," the onetime Midland oilman added. "And, finally, it's in our national security interest."

...

Bush said he and his wife, Laura, rely on another form of renewable energy--geothermal energy--to help power their ranch home outside Crawford in Central Texas.

Read the whole story: McClatchy

Comments

[darter22]

12:10 PM on 05/28/2010

If only you had said this 10 years ago instead of looting the treasury, running up the deficit, and enslaving us to the oil companies.

[oliv0128]

10:03 AM on 05/27/2010

What a nice sentiment, too bad you, and your family, dedicated your political lives to cementing our personal and national dependence on oil and creating a foreign policy based on securing petroleum no matter the human or environmental costs for oil producing countries. Kinda rings hollow.

[Bushdepression]

09:24 AM on 05/27/2010

Yeah, millions of Iraqis and tens of thousands of Americans have been killed or maimed so that you could exhaust all the profits in oil grabbing?

What's next, a War on errant winds?

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KL16Ak02.html
Iraq's oil auction hits the jackpot
By Pepe Escobar

BEIJING - Former United States vice president Dick Cheney, ex-defense minister Donald Rumsfeld and assorted US neo-cons will have plenty of time to nurse their apoplexy. One of their key reasons to unleash the war on Iraq in 2003 was to seize control of its precious oilfields and thus shape a great deal of the new great game in Eurasia - the energy front - by restricting the access of Europe and Asia to Iraq's staggering 115 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

After at least US$2 trillion spent by Washington and arguably more than a million dead Iraqis, it has come to this: a pipe dream definitely buried this past weekend in Baghdad with round two of bids to exploit a number of vast and immensely profitable oil fields…

Cheney's and Rumsfeld's script was never supposed to develop like this. Instead of US Big Oil getting the lion's share, strategic competitors Russia and China turned out to be big winners. Dick Cheney's "consolation prize" was an Exxon-Mobil-Shell alliance getting the phase 1 of West Qurna in early November. Exxon-Mobil had been the favorite to also win Rumaila (17.8

[BlackBart123]

04:56 PM on 05/27/2010

http://www.theonion.com/audio/wind-reserves-to-run-out-by-2036,13448/

[Kuuba]

08:08 AM on 05/27/2010

As THSee posted below, here's Bush 20 months ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89rUSDQHX-Y

[ghost geezer]

01:32 AM on 05/27/2010

Even a blind pig sometimes finds an acorn.

[ladyoftheisland]

01:22 AM on 05/27/2010

This has always intrigued me. I remember seeing it back before the evil Cheney took over W's soul and it became George Bush's Big Secret, the house at his Crawford ranch:

"Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this "eco-friendly" dwelling use about 25% of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.

"A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem. "

[Forester]

11:31 PM on 05/26/2010

Hey dubya: go f c k yourself.

[Overtone]

07:58 PM on 05/26/2010

YES, HYBRIDS WILL TRANSITION TO ELECTRIC CARS!

Revolutionary cost-competitive, renewable, technologies are beginning to emerge. We may soon cut the cord on a plug-in hybrid!

Moving Beyond Oil and Running on Water at; http://www.aesopinstitute.org discuss some new possibilities.

Breakthrough, inherently decentralized, technologies are moving forward in several countries.

However, the science is new and difficult to accept.

Government and independent labs are increasingly involved and practical applications are on the horizon.

As we can see in the Gulf, fossil fuels threaten to sharply impact life on earth much more quickly and severely than is generally realized.

Another hit will be oil prices, which could exceed $100 per barrel in a matter of months. That can abort economic recovery.

With one example of new science and technology, a barrel of ordinary water is expected to replace 200 barrels of oil. A gallon or two might power a future hybrid car 1,000 miles.

The oil catastrophe in the Gulf is an alarm clock!

Time to accelerate the development of breakthrough alternatives as rapidly as is humanly possible!

A 24/7 development program is pending and is ready to be born. A few wise, adventuresome risk takers can accelerate the birth!

[geebee2222]

04:57 PM on 05/26/2010

Stupid is as Stupid does!

[THSee]

03:37 PM on 05/26/2010

And 20 months ago...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89rUSDQHX-Y

[Kuuba]

08:07 AM on 05/27/2010

Thanks for the link, you just had to know something like this existed.

[techcafe]

01:05 PM on 05/26/2010

it was YOUR CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION, under Cheney's direction, that led to the catastrophic DE-REGULATION of the oil industry.

so you are an oil-soaked hypocrite, Mr Bush.

[MJ Hooper]

12:39 PM on 05/26/2010

So...pigs do fly.....

[edva]

11:52 AM on 05/26/2010

God, talk IS cheap.

[codycap]

11:23 AM on 05/26/2010

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." --George W. Bush

"Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." --George W. Bush, in parting words to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at his final G-8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as the two leaders looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008

[ZoinksGraphics]

10:24 AM on 05/26/2010

I honestly thought it was a typo when I saw this headline...