National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
President Bush ended the day in Colorado, where some three dozen workers at the federal National Renewable Energy Laboratory were rehired after being laid off soon after Mr. Bush's State of the Union address promoting renewable energy. Mr. Bush is to visit the laboratory, in Golden, Colo., on Tuesday morning. In the words of Samuel W. Bodman, the programs at the energy laboratory are critically important to realizing the president's vision to diversify and strengthen our nation's energy mix. Mr. Bush ended the day in Colorado, where some three dozen workers at the federal National Renewable Energy Laboratory were rehired after being laid off soon after Mr. Bush's State of the Union address promoting renewable energy. The programs at the energy laboratory, Mr. Bodman said in a statement that it was critically important to realize the president's vision to diversify and strengthen our nation's energy mix. Both Republicans and Democrats commend Mr. Bush for endorsing alternative sources of energy, but Republicans question the practicality of relying on them and Democrats say that a more significant way of reducing reliance on foreign oil is imposing higher fuel-efficiency standards on cars, which Mr. Bush opposes.