President George Bush responding to a persistant reporter looking for guidance from the White house on energy conservation…
“I think people ought to conserve and be wise about how they use gasoline and energy … and there’s some easy steps people can take. You know, if they’re not in their home, they don’t keep their air-conditioning running,” Bush said, adding that “it’s a little presumptuous on my part to dictate to consumers how they live their lives.”
The Boulder city and county governments could learn from this attitude. Instead I have 3 trash cans.