themattscott are you listening yet

You may have missed it, but Bush talked about high prices on both food and oil in a news conference out on the front lawn today. He made a few good points, and a few poor one.

The most striking point he made was that we should buy from LOCAL farmers, I wholly and totally support this idea (but I’ve yet to put it in full practice…).

But he also talked about Ethanol and touted it as a solution to the fuel crisis, but I think that idea has been sufficiently debunked. The usage of corn based Ethanol as an alternative fuel source is, in large part, a cause for the current food problems throughout the world. He also stated that we need to be exploring oil sources at home, or in other words, we need to be drilling for oil in Alaska.

I haven’t really formed a full opinion on drilling in Alaska, I’m leaning against it right now, but I could be swayed the other way if I read a compelling argument for it. I do think that we need to be exploring alternate (alternative) fuel vehicles, not just hybrid vehicles. Drilling for more oil is not going to solve the problem in the end, but lessening our dependence on oil (not just foreign oil) via alternative sources of fuel.

But I’m really only speaking what has already been said, and I’m likely only “preaching to the choir,” I just wanted to give a few quick thoughts on his news conference today.

He did make one other point (just now- the conference is still going on, I wanted to essentially live blog it because I doubt that there will be a full transcript) about how hard it is to fight against men who strap bombs to their chest and blow up innocents to achieve their objectives, I guess there’s a big difference from dropping bombs from the sky that kill innocents.

I might edit this as the conference continues, but as of now… that’s all folks.

Ok, EDIT: Just read that the Indian Taxi Fund is already at $1000 (in less than a week), and there is one more spot available for the free* Red Cowboy Design job. Also, still looking for that donor match if anyone’s willing, contact me via email.