Bush Still Plans to Push Oil Drilling
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President Bush still plans to ask lawmakers to open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, his spokesman said.
White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said that “there was some confusion” when administration officials were asked on TV about a Time magazine report quoting Bush’s chief political advisor, Karl Rove.
The magazine quoted an unnamed source as having said Rove told a media consultant for oil companies in a private meeting last week that Bush wasn’t going to push Congress for new drilling.
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