Bush's Trump Card: More Gallons Per Mile

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Card rapped as stooge: Critics say energy advice isย tainted

The Boston Herald, Feb. 7,ย 2006

Environmentalists yesterday blasted President Bushโ€™s energy budget as the product of an administration dominated by ex-oil and auto industry executives โ€” including former auto lobbyist turned White House chief of staff Andrewย Card.

The administration defended its proposed energy spending plan as an attempt to wean the nation off foreign oil, something Bush vowed to do during last weekโ€™s State of the Union address in which he said the nation was โ€œaddictedโ€ to oil. Among other things, the administration yesterday outlined its plan to eliminate $61 million now earmarked for oil and gasย research.

The presidentโ€™s budget proposal also includes nearly a half-billion dollars in new funds for scientific research into new energyย technologies.

But critics ripped into the presidentโ€™s plan, saying it devotes hundreds of millions of dollars to promote nuclear energy and to open up drilling in the Articย Circle.

Jeremy Marin, a regional representative in the Sierra Clubโ€™s Boston office, said the entire Bush energy policy has been flawed since Bush took office inย 2001.

He noted that many administration officials came from the oil and auto industries, including Card, a Massachusetts native who previously served as head of the now-defunct American Automobile Manufacturers Association and later as a lobbyist for General Motors.

โ€œIf Andrew Card and the White House wanted to do something for America, (then) they would require cars to go farther on a gallon of gas,โ€ said Marin, saying the administrationโ€™s call last year to increase auto fuel-efficiency standards wasย inadequate.

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