If Bush Invested the 2 trillion in technology to replace oil would he have been the greatest President ever?

I don't know if that would make him the greatest president but certainly it would make him more noble than he has turned out to be.

I've thought so all along.

September 12, 2001 was the day to declare a New Manhattan Project for Energy Independence in honor of the lives lost in that city the previous day.

You are correct, we would build an entirely new infrastructure and industrial base and achieve full employment. The technology already exists, but not on a scale to make it available across the petroaddicted country. I have friends who drive their diesel cars on pure vegetable oil (cheaper to make than ethanol) with excellent results. Why do we subsidize factory farms again??

Most of all, perhaps, we would potentially experience a sense of (gasp!) national purpose and collective pride for the first time in a few generations.

And yes, the ragheads could take a bath in their oil.

He would have been the greatest ever had he pursued such a path.

As it stands, he gets a D--

No because even with the investments the technology to produce commercially is a long way off.

There was a great article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal about electric cars and that the battery technology isn't there yet to make them a viable replacement for gas vehicles.

How about giving the 2 trillion back to the SOS trust fund that the feds owe

the more likely scenarios are:

1) 2 trillion spent without result

2) 2 trillion spent with questionable results and a new industry that wants another 2 trillion without much better odds that this will ever work.

dreaming is fine ... engineering has to be based in reality

Bush can't take a **** by himself. There is no way he could implement something of that magnitude.

Bush has only one interest: WAR, WAR AND MORE WAR. Anything not having to do with war does not interest him or his cohorts.

And Al_Qaeda would have came to the US and bombed more that that worth of buildings and killed many many people. Give it up, you have a one track mind. You never look at all of the consequences only what YOU want.

No, people would have complained that it wasn't the US government's responsibility and that he wasted all that money.

Kind of like what they're saying about Iraq.

Bush could never ever have that title. No matter what he did, or didn't do.