Bart Campolo asks what many others are asking:
Actually, I don’t have many problems with what the President said; what bothers me is the gaping chasm between his rhetoric and the actions (and inactions) of his administration. I mean, does anyone really that George W. Bush is sincerely committed to breaking this nation’s addiction to oil?
Bush’s statement strikes me as similar to Hitler observing “There’s a lot of hate and prejudice in the world”
An even better comparison is how the tobacco companies are doing these “quit smoking” campaigns, which they are obviously doing in order to attempt to soften meausres taken against them. And there you have the Bush attempts to “soften the political backlash against them, and to keep people from recognizing how thoroughly the Bush family has been a driving force behind making oil consumption more attractive, and lack of concern about moderation in the form of fuel economy (ie. the explosion of the SUV market, fully encouraged by the Bush administration)