Has everyone forgot President Bushs first term...?

OK, I know that a lot of people don't like president Bush because of the war, but I don't know why people are giving him such a problem about the envirornment. I know ANWAR or whatever the place in Alaska is called would be a bad idea to drill on, I disagreed with him when he wanted to do this. But when he first started in office, I remember he was realling pushing wind power technology in the U.S. great plains. I also remember how liberals said this was a bad idea, and after the terrorist attacks happened, he had to put some things on hold, wind power technology included. Now people are saying that he never tried to do anything for global warming and that republicans are why our environment is messed up. What about wind power though when Bush first talked to Congress about it. Some countries (small ones) are completely run on wind power, how is that not cutting down on oil and helping the environment. If anyone that thinks Bush does nothing for the environment, what about this?

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That is a very good point Cameron. President Bush began his first term supporting a number of environmental initiatives.

He seems to have got himself sidetracked with the Global War on Terror.

My Granfather had a rather quaint saying for this:

the saying is:

"When you are up to your * in alligators it is sometimes difficult to remember that your original objective was to drain the swamp"

I know it may sound far fetched to you, but did you ever consider the possibility that he could have been lying to gain political advantage? Oh no, a politician wouldn't do that.

I saw something like this on CNN earlier today. It's not that Bush had to put environmentally stuff on the back-burner (no pun intended) after 9/11, but it's because he refused to. He never agreed to diverting money into research for alternative energy, but rather, he said that the country doesn't need to and also implied that Kyoto was bullcrap. Australia's drought, here we come!

... please provide citations for how he "was realling pushing wind power technology in the U.S. great plains" AND for "liberals said this was a bad idea". Your question reads like political spin to me.

First, Bush was Facing Gore, the Top Most Environementalist Evar. (lol)

Second, waste of money. The power you'd get from windpowered stations is insignifigant. Better to make more Hydroelectric Dams.

Details... well, water is denser than air and the flow of water often out powers the flow of air (epecailly in those dams) thus the energy gained by moving a windmill is less than you'd get from a dam... or you can use watermills.

But with the "lakes drying up" and all that BS looks like the future is wind.

"But when he first started in office, I remember he was realling pushing wind power technology in the U.S. great plains. I also remember how liberals said this was a bad idea, and after the terrorist attacks happened, he had to put some things on hold, wind power technology included."

I don't remember that whatsoever. I looked it up and found this:

"The eagerly awaited Bush energy plan released on May 17, 2001, disappointed many people because it largely overlooked the potential contribution of raising energy efficiency. It also overlooked the enormous potential of wind power"

http://www.earth-policy.org/alerts/alert...

"In his current budget proposal, President Bush slashed the amount of funding for wind power in half — from $40 million this current fiscal year to $20.5 million proposed for next year."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3071946/...

So your memory appears to be exactly wrong, though in 2004 he did get a C+ from PERC, which is higher than I would have expected.

http://www.perc.org/perc.php?id=476...

Yes people actually liked George Bush when he first started out. I wish everything was the same as it was before 9/11 when the US took a big flipflop. I think President Bush should have gotten down to business on Wind power in the US. We should have more wind turbines in our country to generate electricity. Florida espeically. I remember that he didn't get real unpopular til his 2nd term.

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