In order to sign the bill, it was required to fly to Albuquerque. I suppose they don't have any pens in Crawford, so they loaded up AF1 and the press plane, and flew up to Bill Richardson territory.
On a day which spot crude oil prices have hit a new high, doesn't anyone in the MSM see the irony of Bush wasting a vaste amount of energy to tout huge subsidies to energy companies? In order to sign the bill, he had to visit a solar energy test facility opened in 1978. The long drop in oil prices due to laws (CAFE standards & c.) passed in the Carter administration is over, and the best the Republicans can come up with is a larded pork fest, and the only symbolic location appropriate for the signing is a test facility built when Republicans and Democrats understood that oil dependance is not a good thing.