Five Brilliant Bush Quotes About the Environment

January 17, 2009 · Print This Article

Well, as far as I know he’s no longer residing in the White House but he’s still our president for another day or so. To honor all of the great work he’s done by the last eight years, we’ve compiled some of our favorite quotes regarding the environment.

“One of these days, that little lady right here is going to be driving an automobile with a hybrid engine in it, and a fuel cell in it. And it’s going to work. And I hope I’m around to see it, too.” Funny, hybrids aly existed thereupon. Washington, D.C., February 25, 2002
“It would be helpful whether we opened up ANWR. I think it’s a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there and take a look at it and you can produce the determination as to how beautiful that country is.” That’s ok, we didn’t like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge anyway. Mar. 29, 2001
“Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to signal it hemispheric in nature considering it

is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.”Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
“There are some monuments where the land is so widesp, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the - the precious part, so to speak, I guess all land is precious - but the part that the citizens uniformly would not want to spoil, will not be despoiled. But there are parts of the monument lands where we can explore without affecting the overall environment.” Drill baby, drill. March 13, 2001
Last, but certainly not least, we will never forget what Bush said as he addressed a farewell to the members of the G8 summit about cutting carbon emissions: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.” He soon after punched his fist into the air and grinned. Toyako, Japan, July 10, 2008