The Magic Wands Bush Won't Wave

By Dan Froomkin

Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, April 21, 2005; 11:56 AM

For months, the stock White House response to question about high gas prices has been to call for passage of President Bush's energy plan -- as if the two were related.

So it was a bit of a shock yesterday when Bush himself bluntly acknowledged what's been obvious to most observers for quite a while now: That his energy proposals won't lower gas prices in the short term one bit.