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February 2, 2006
Bush - Caught Again
When one wonders why President Bush has a credibility problem, you don't have to go too far to see the disconnect between his words and deeds. In his State of the Union speech on Tuesday he mentioned he planned on raising research funding for alternative fuels by 20%. Two days later in the NY Times we read this bit of information: (NYT)
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.
The budget for the laboratory, which is just west of Denver, was cut by nearly 15 percent, to $174 million from $202 million, requiring the layoff of about 40 staff members out of a total of 930, said a spokesman, George Douglas. The cut is for the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1.
If this happened only once or twice it would be no big deal, but this is one more example of a huge list of such occurrences that result in serious credibility problems. Eventually people catch on.
Posted by Chip Spear at February 2, 2006 8:57 AM
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