January 24, 2007 4:16PM # Bush’s Energy Pablum By [Jerry Taylor](https://www.cato.org/people/jerry-taylor) --- SHARE Last night, President Bush unveiled what he calls his “20-by-10” plan, a program that he claims would reduce America’s gasoline consumption by 20 percent within 10 years. You can find my critique of the alternative fuels madness that he proposed last night [here](http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jerry_taylor/2007/01/switching_to_snake_oil.html), a more thorough critique of ethanol subsidies in general [here](http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/publications.taf?function=detail&ID=586&cat=MIR), my complaint with his $60 billion plan to massively expand the Strategic Petroleum Reserve [here](http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2061EFE3A540C708CDDA80894DE404482&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fS%2fStockpiling) and [here](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5197), and a call to dismantle — not revise — federal automobile fuel efficiency standards [here](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3409). By the way, you know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters — and not by, oh, anyone who knows what they are talking about — when the numbers are nice and round with a catchy ring to them when put together. ##### Related Tags [Energy and Environment](https://www.cato.org/research/energy-environment), [General](https://www.cato.org/general) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).