Michael quotes:

> Bush Blames Cuts at Energy Lab on Mix-Up 
>  
>  President Bush on Tuesday acknowledged that Washington has sent "mixed 
>  signals" to one of the nation's premiere labs studying renewable energies 
— 
>  by first laying off, then reinstating, 32 workers just before his visit. 
>  
>  The president blamed the conflicting message on an appropriations mix-up 
in 
>  funding the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 
which 
>  is developing the very renewable energy technologies the president is 
>  promoting.

I watched a snippet of his speech at the NREL this morning on television, 
because, for the first time in five years, this is a policy of his that I can 
fully support. Perhaps the most interesting thing to come of that talk, which was 
more of a pep talk than a policy lecture, was that he pronounced NREL as 
"Enron."

I kid you not. As the broadcast was simultaneously being recorded by my DVR, 
I went back and listened to it again to be sure that I hadn't misunderstood 
what he said. No, it was plainly "Enron," perhaps the ultimate Freudian slip, 
indicating that he's not yet a completely reformed, seen-the-light Texas oil 
man, but he's getting closer to T. Boone Pickens and me every day now.

Wirt Atmar

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