Bush to Make Energy a 2007 Priority, Economic Aide Hubbard Says

resident George W. Bush wants to make energy independence a domestic priority next year with an eye to gathering bipartisan support in the Democratic-controlled Congress, his chief economic adviser said.

“The American people are very interested in the leadership of our country figuring out a way for us to be less dependent on foreign sources of oil,” Allan Hubbard, director of Bush’s National Economic Council, said in a Dec. 8 interview. “I’m sure he will address energy security in his State of the Union and his other major speeches.”
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