President George W. Bush, in regards to a new energy plan: “Yes — well, I’m trying to get an energy plan out of Congress. (Laughter.) The House of Representatives — the House of Representatives passed a good energy bill. It is stuck in the Senate. And I believe it is in our national interests to have an energy plan, to have a strategy to get us less dependent on foreign sources of crude oil. Part of that energy plan means that we’ve got to enhance conservation. We’ve got to encourage technologies that will enable us to conserve better. And we can do that with the proper incentives. And this plan of ours that passed the House has got incentives to encourage conservation. And we’re making great strides in our society, by the way, of conserving. We’re doing a much better job, and we can do an even better job.”
– Transcript, “President Meets with Displaced Workers in Town Hall Meeting,” George W. Bush – White House Archives online, Accessed on 7/6/2016