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Bush is the Father of Electric Vehicle
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Arnold Panz
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Urgh. Gritting my teeth trying to find anything someone might consider positive he said. (Floating among a seat of euphemistic rhetorical subterfuge there is probably a quote here or there that could be re-purposed in hindsight.)
Maybe they were talking about this? :
Has 'W' Gone Green? - VolNation
REVE - Regulación Eólica con Vehículos Eléctricos -
But wait, that was only a year ago after it was clear that the "tides had already turned."
Then you have this sort of thing:
Automakers, Bush administration push flex-fuel cars while ignoring electric vehicles
Battery Electric Vehicles vs. Hydrogen Vehicles | EVHUB updates - B2B, B2C, Information and media ex
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Don't forget the whole ending of the CARB programme happened on his watch. Don't tell me that is coincidence.
Thanks for trying TEG. A Bush quote would carry weight with the political EV haters. (This is a job for the Daily Show.)
The man himself may not have been an EV denier. He rode a mountain bike and his SS team had electric bikes. I would think anything that happened on his eight year watch would have been done by a Democratic congress and he just did not fight it -which I suppose could count for something.
I'm going to paraphrase(co-opt?) that first quote to something like:
George W. Bush even said. "
Though I would prefer the national security angle.
The man himself may not have been an EV denier. He rode a mountain bike and his SS team had electric bikes. I would think anything that happened on his eight year watch would have been done by a Democratic congress and he just did not fight it -which I suppose could count for something.
I'm going to paraphrase(co-opt?) that first quote to something like:
George W. Bush even said. "
Though I would prefer the national security angle.
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William13
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Bush may not have been a proponent of electric vehicles in your opinion but the DOE loans that were made to Tesla and Nissan and the $7,500 tax credit for electric batteries in cars came from laws G W Bush signed into law.
As recently as 2006, Scientific American published an article called "High Hopes for Hydrogen", where they laid out a roadmap for a transition to hydrogen powered cars. It makes a good read, even if it is all a pipe dream.
I'm sure many of the proponents of hydrogen honestly believe in it. Lots of people drank the kool-ade. The reality is that hydrogen is extremely unlikely to reach technological or economic viability. It will do nothing to get us off fossil fuels since they are the easiest way to make hydrogen. Even if by some miracle it someday becomes viable, battery technology will already have been established, and it will be redundant.
Bush read a script someone put in front of him. I'm sure he never gave more than a moment's thought to alternative energy sources for transportation.
I'm sure many of the proponents of hydrogen honestly believe in it. Lots of people drank the kool-ade. The reality is that hydrogen is extremely unlikely to reach technological or economic viability. It will do nothing to get us off fossil fuels since they are the easiest way to make hydrogen. Even if by some miracle it someday becomes viable, battery technology will already have been established, and it will be redundant.
Bush read a script someone put in front of him. I'm sure he never gave more than a moment's thought to alternative energy sources for transportation.
If you spout enough scripted "sound bytes" eventually someone can cherry pick whatever message they want...
Bush Checks Out PHEV and EV on White House Lawn
Editorial: Analyzing President Bush's short speech on electric cars and cellulosic ethanol Autoblog Green
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And then rumored to have returned it right away.
(Reason given - he didn't fit in it well.)
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