The energy strategy will be announced Thursday by Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The Administration has shown proper balance between conservation, increased capacity and increased production.
Critics are off base if they suggest the plan relies too heavily on fossil fuels.
The truth is now and in the near future fossil fuel will remain to be the least expensive, most plentiful and most reliable fuel we have. Last year he was appointed as a member of the new Environment and Natural Resources Task Force in the Texas Comptroller's e-Texas commission, 2000. In addition to his role with the NCPA, he is also an advisor to the American Legislative Exchange Council's Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force. He has appeared on such programs as the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Special Report with Brit Hume and on ABC Radio News . Burnett will be in Washington, D.C. this week.