Home-grown crops the answer to our addiction to oil, Bush tells…
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- Home-grown crops the answer to our addiction to oil, Bush tells…
- Europe Hails Bush’s Climate Take But Says Bolder Steps Needed
- Bush Pleads in State of the Union Address to Give Iraq Plan ‘A…
- ’70s in the Bay Area — era of radical violence
- Senior British prosecutor says fight against terror not a ‘war'…
Home-grown crops the answer to our addiction to oil, Bush tells…
Guardian Unlimited – Jan 24, 2007
Joel Kaplan, White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters in a briefing hours before George Bush’s annual state of the union address that the president wanted Americans to cut petrol consumption by up to 20% by 2017. The move comes a year after Mr Bush described Americans as being “addicted to oil”. Mr Bush has not suddenly gone green: he remains sceptical about climate change, continuing to insist that the case has still to be made on global warming. His proposal is motivated by security concerns – the US’s dependence on oil from the volatile Middle East.
Europe Hails Bush’s Climate Take But Says Bolder Steps Needed
Deutsche Welle – Jan 24, 2007
” But environmentalists in Europe say his measures don’t go far enough. German leaders on Wednesday reacted positively to US President George W. Bush’s annual State of the Union speech in which he called climate change a “serious issue” and urged Americans to cut their gasoline consumption by 20 percent over a decade, mostly through a nearly five-fold increase in use of home-grown fuels such as ethanol. Bush also pushed for tighter vehicle fuel efficiency standards. “A positive sign”
“The fact that the American president acknowledges climate change as a problem is definitely a positive sign,” Karsten Voigt, the government’s coordinator of transatlantic relations told Spiegel Online.
Bush Pleads in State of the Union Address to Give Iraq Plan ‘A…
FOX News – Jan 24, 2007
gasoline consumption by 20 percent in the next 10 years. To reach that goal, Bush called for setting a mandatory fuel standard for alternative and renewable gases to 35 billion gallons by 2017, nearly five times the current target. Ethanol, already in use in retail gasoline, is growing in acceptance because it is cleaner, renewable — it can be made from corn and sugar cane, for instance — and home grown. However, the president’s new fuel standards were not limited to ethanol. “We need to press on with battery research for plug-in and hybrid vehicles and expand the use of clean diesel vehicles and biodiesel fuel. We must continue investing in new methods of producing ethanol — using everything from wood chips, to grasses, to agricultural wastes,” he said. Bush also asked Congress for the authority to reform the Corporate Fuel Economy — or CAFE standards — for passenger cars to reduce usage without affecting safety by an additional 8.
’70s in the Bay Area — era of radical violence
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 24, 2007
Before Young became a casualty, it was police Sgt. He died in a bombing at the Park Station that authorities have always suspected was part of the era’s home-grown terrorism. The Young killing was the Black Liberation Army’s response to the death just eight days earlier of Black Panther leader George Jackson, who was killed in a failed escape attempt from San Quentin State Prison. A year before, Jackson’s brother, Jonathan, had died in a bloody shootout with authorities at the Marin County courthouse after he and others tried to kidnap a judge, jurors and a prosecutor. In a letter to The Chronicle a couple of days after Young’s death, the “George L. Jackson Assault Squad of the Black Liberation Army” claimed responsibility for the killing, arguing that it was an act of “revolutionary violence” because of the “recent intolerable political assassination of Comrade George L.
Senior British prosecutor says fight against terror not a ‘war'…
Christian Science Monitor – Jan 24, 2007
The Guardian also writes that Macdonald’s comments can be seen an assault on the Blair government’s legislation that allowed the indefinite detention of suspected terrorists without trial, which was later ruled invalid by the British courts, as well as the “replacement law that permits suspects to be placed under control orders instead of being brought to trial. Macdonald had just been given a knighthood by the Blair government in December of 2006. The Evening Standard reports that the intelligence chiefs say that “.