Addicted to B.S.

Well, pity the poor Energy Secretary, who today had to backtrack on the Chimp's promise to reduce US dependence on foreign oil by 60% by the year 2025. Not even 24 hours after the State of the Union speech, here's what he's reduced to:

Administration backs off Bush's vow to reduce Mideast oil imports
By Kevin G. Hall
Knight Ridder Newspapers

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

What the president meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels could displace an amount of oil imports equivalent 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

OK, so everything they say is made up, then. I get it now.