Bush story Coal is central to energy policy, Bush says Coal will be central to the Administration's energy policy of reducing dependence on foreign oil and avoiding crises like the electricity shortage in California, President George W. Bush said in a roundtable discussion last week in West Virginia.
Demand is greater than supply.
And we can affect demand, and will. We'll work on conservation measures. But we have got to understand that we need to work on the supply side . . . I believe we can. And many of the experts know we can.