President moving away from oil? I don't think so

From the Seattle Times:

PRESIDENT George W. Bush swerved toward green in his State of the Union address Tuesday, setting a goal of reducing America's dependence on Mideast oil and embracing renewable fuels.

After five years of pushing for Arctic drilling and more oil production, the President's message must be received with some amazement.

These elements long have been part of the president's energy policy, but Bush's emphasis Tuesday represents a reshuffling of priorities. Missing was a mention of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a proposal stalled in December by filibuster, and of more domestic exploration in the Rocky Mountains or off the coast. Bush never mentioned the Kyoto Accords, a global treaty to reduce pollutants.

The state of the union speech was a pure political speech. Bush knows that all the recent reports of record oil company profits will hurt him even more in the polls so he's just paying lip service to the oil problem. He and Cheney aren't going to do anything that would hurt the oil companies. The oil company execs know they've got a close ally in the Bush administration. Remember this is a President who rarely if ever changes his mind or admits to mistakes. If anyone believes that after 5 years in office Bush has all of a sudden decided to embrace alternative energy solutions because he actually believes in them then i have some swamp land i want to sell you.