Staying Addicted to Oil

Remember in the State of the Union Bush talked about how technology would help reduce our addiction to oil? Well, so much for that. It seems the DoE is cutting $115 million from it's budget and about a dozen projects are going away. "Included is a U.S. Energy Department program that in 2004 saved 122 million barrels of oil, worth about $9 billion...Also being subject to spending cuts is the government's Industrial Technologies Program that saves the United States $7 worth of energy for each dollar it spends." Brilliant.