"Instead of driving down the demand for oil by requiring higher mileage standards for cars, both the president and his friends in Congress have spent years encouraging Americans to buy ever-larger gas hogs. Suddenly last week, Bush and some of his allies said it was time to raise the standards. No kidding."

[ Boulder ] Daily Camera, Sunday April 30, 2006

"Congress has doggedly refused to significantly raise the mileage standards for new cars. And while it pretends to encourage conservation, the much-vaunted federal energy bill that Bush signed last year authorized only limited tax credits for hybrid cars."

[ Boulder ] Daily Camera, Wednesday April 26, 2006