I posted an item yesterday featuring Richardson’s first response to the energy components of the State of the Union. It seems that the Governor has had more time to look over the facts and check out what Bush has really been doing–and the former Energy Secretary isn’t happy with what he sees.
“Lofty goals but a weak plan of action,” Richardson, a Democrat who is now New Mexico’s governor, said in a telephone interview with Reuters about Bush’s comments in his Tuesday State of the Union address.
“Look at the stats,” Richardson said. “The Bush administration has been asleep at the switch. We have gone from 54 percent dependence on foreign oil to 65 percent, according to the Energy Information Administration” (EIA), the analytical and statistics arm of the Department of Energy.
Vague promises to do research at the DOE are not going to solve America’s oil crisis. We need an Apollo program–and a President who understands energy.