Bush energy advisers clarify his statements on Mideast oil - Thursday, 02/02/06

Bush energy advisers clarify his statements on Mideast oil - Thursday, 02/02/06: "Bush energy advisers clarify his statements on Mideast oil

Tennessean News Services

WASHINGTON — One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting 75% of imports from there by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said yesterday that the president didn't mean it literally.

What the president meant, they said, was that alternative fuels could displace an amount of oil imports equal to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025.


But America still would import oil from the Middle East because that's where the greatest oil supplies are."