FCAT scores released The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test scores were released Tuesday. Nathaniel Brazill Follow the trial and sentencing of Nathaniel Brazill . Read the series . We have a fundamental disagreement . . . Before the meeting, Bush told a business group here that the keys to solving the energy crisis are conservation, increasing supplies and an end to blaming the federal government and others.
Energy is a problem that requires action.
Not politics, not excuses, but action. California accounts for about 13 percent of the nation's economic output and, by itself, would be the world's sixth-biggest economy. In his speech, Bush stressed conservation more than he has in other states less known for their environmental bent. His new policy offers up conservation suggestions ranging from cutting electricity consumption by federal agencies to giving incentives for alternative-fuel automobiles. Bush's visit to California, his first as president to a state he lost by a million votes last November, was carefully orchestrated by White House officials fearful of political backlash.