interesting bit about weaning the US from Oil dependency-
except the simple step of conservation isnt being made.
- ie. lowering speed limits
and requiring higher fuel efficiency from the automakers (that for years have been reaping big money from suv sales - and get around fuel efficiency standards for cars - and now are suffering because due to high oil prices sales of suvs and trucks are down)

hey, whatever happened to going to mars and putting a base on the moon?
That was part of last years state of the union (or the year before) I suppose W wanted to make a challenge and sound like Kennedy. In which case he failed miserably, as the White HOuse ended up cutting Nasas Budget which also affects the Hubble telescope - arguably one of the most useful things to come out the space program.

at the end of the speech he added, Sept 11 and terrorist terrorist terrorist.