Bush urges Americans to conserve petrol
01/09/2005 - 21:20:16US President George Bush will tour the hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast region tomorrow and has asked his father, former President George Bush, and former President Bill Clinton to lead a private fund-raising campaign for victims.
“This is an agonising time for the people of the Gulf Coast,” Bush said tonight as he stood with the two former presidents in the White House.
He urged Americans to be prudent in their consumption of energy, but called the hurricane a “temporary disruption” to petrol supplies.
The president will fly to Mobile, Alabama then survey the Alabama and Mississippi coast by helicopter before visiting some sites on the ground in Mississippi.
He then plans to go to New Orleans for an aerial tour, said White House press secretary Scott McClellan.
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