Readers respond to President Bush's statement that the nation is addicted to oil.
"How can President Bush chide the American public for its addiction to oil when his administration has done nothing but encourage and feed this addiction? At every turn, the current administration has steered away from alternative renewable energy development and automobile fuel-efficiency standards."
"It's funny. Every year in the State of the Union address, the president makes mention of tapping alternative sources of energy. And that's about the last we hear of it for another year."
"In 1980, my wife and I bought a Subaru station wagon that reliably got more than 35 miles to the gallon on the highway. Today, 26 years later, there are still only a handful of cars that get that kind of mileage."
"The next time President Bush flies to Crawford, Texas, he should go a bit farther, land in Mexico City and ask to ride in a taxi that runs on air. Yes, Mexico City has these [the e.Volution car built by Motor Development International in France]. No gas required."
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