President Bush launched a two-week campaign yesterday to prepare the country for the recommendations of the secretive White House energy task force. Bush said, “What people need to hear loud and clear is that we’re running out of energy in America.” Building on a comment made by Vice President Cheney earlier this week that conservation is little more than a “personal virtue,” Bush said, “[W]e can’t conserve our way to energy independence, nor can we conserve our way to having enough energy available. So we’ve got to do both.” Got it? The Natural Resources Defense Council began an ad campaign yesterday that describes Bush’s energy plans as the “more pollution solution.”
