Poppy and the Seed

Bush did a decent job in his speech at the 16th Annual Energy Efficiency Forum on Wednesday. It helps that he read from a script. (He even said good things about France!) I find it interesting that Bush always orthogonalizes his ideas, compartmentalizing his thoughts according to a black&white dogma.

BUSH	Ethanol	Bio-diesel
Corn	We've got to be aggressive about finding alternative sources of fuel. And one such source is ethanol. Ethanol comes from corn -- and we're pretty good about growing corn here in America, we've got a lot of good corn growers.	?
Soybeans	?	By the way, we can get the same type of alternative fuel from soybeans. It's called biodiesel. And that's a promising source of energy.1

And the following call to arms strikes me as either damning or revealing, depending on your Freudian interpretation:

Bush: Now is the time to act. Now is the time to put a strategy -- we should have done this 10 to 15 years ago.

Who was president 15 years ago? Dang-nabbit, Poppy, why'd you go and get us into this mess for?

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¹ A few days ago this: "Bush: I'll tell you an interesting opportunity for not only here, but for the rest of the world, is biodiesel. That is a fuel developed from soybeans."