Help! Our country is being run by a moron.

...in case you didn't already know.

In a recent interview with Politico.com and Yahoo! News, Bush did not do a whole lot to boost his appeal...or his reputation of being an idiot. In my opinion, he gave any watcher a plethora of reasons why he is not fit to be our president. I want to highlight reason #48216: because he knows NOTHING about the environment.

The interview was Bush's first that was intended specifically for the Internet. When one Politico user asked what Bush and his administration can do to help people RIGHT NOW who are trying to afford to live while the record-breaking prices of oil, at $126/barrel*, are raising prices of everything...even food, Bush said, and I quote (thanks to the official White House Transcript):

With the price of gasoline going up, it's like a tax. ... In other words, it took us a while to get to where we are -- very dependent on oil, and in a world in which demand is greater than oil. So my answer to Steven is that the best thing we can do is to increase supply, and to drill for oil and gas in environmentally friendly ways at home, and build more refineries. ... We haven't built a new refinery since 1976, and if we're truly interested in relieving the pressure on our consumers, then we ought to have a very active domestic policy now. ... The truth of the matter is that in order for there to be a substantial change either consumers have to change their habits -- which we're encouraging through alternative tax of automobiles -- or there has to be an increase of supply. And both of them have to go hand in hand in order to achieve less dependence on this very unsettled oil market.

Now, if someone could please explain to me how INCREASING SUPPLY is the answer, I'd greatly appreciate it. And also how it's possible to drill for oil in an environmentally friendly way. I don't understand how Bush could blindly disregard options like innovative technologies or WEENING OUR COUNTRY OFF OUR OIL DEPENDENCY.

Where do you imagine we would be now had Al Gore been elected back in 2000? I'd imagine far, far away from here.

*...now up to $128/barrel.