Energy? Who Needs It.
This is from email sent by Cassy.
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From John Boehner;
Now we need to remove other government barriers to environmentally responsible drilling in the desolate Alaskan coastal plain, remote federal lands, deepwater energy zones far off U.S. coasts and other sources of American-made energy while promoting conservation and accelerating the development of alternative fuels as part of an "all of the above" energy strategy.
While we work to remove government barriers, it's critical that we not build new barriers. The House yesterday approved an unfortunate bill that would designate parts of a Massachusetts river as "wild and scenic," which would provide federal protection against development. However, development on this portion of the Taunton River includes a planned liquefied natural gas facility that would increase energy supplies to residents of the Northeast and help reduce home heating costs. It's ridiculous in this time of skyrocketing energy costs that Congress would disingenuously designate an industrialized part of a river as "wild and scenic" to block the construction of a natural gas facility that offers a responsible way to get affordable new energy to millions of Americans.
On Friday, I will begin the American Energy Tour that will take me to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado and to Alaska's remote North Slope. This trip will highlight meaningful solutions to help reduce gas prices and break our dependence on foreign sources of energy.
Policies not widely embraced when gasoline was $2 per gallon – such as oil exploration on a tiny patch of Alaska's vast North Slope – now enjoy the American people's overwhelming support in the face of $4 per gallon gas. That is why I am heading to the Arctic Coastal Plain: to learn about the abundance of American energy held hostage below the tundra by the Democrats in charge of Congress, and to promote the environmentally-safe exploration of those resources on behalf of families and small businesses alike. At the same time, the future of American energy is in alternative and renewable fuels, which is why we must encourage new and emerging technologies, such as those developed at the renewable energy lab we will tour outside of Denver.
READ MORE:
7/15/2008 COLUMN: We Need an "All of the Above" Energy Strategy
7/10/2008 PRESS RELEASE: Boehner Announces American Energy Tour
Energy Scorecard
Read more about the Republican "All of the Above" Energy Plan
NJ_GOP; The problem with this is not what they did, but the timing. It definitely is disingenuous to deliberately block this construction when I'm sure they don't care much about the scenery at all.
That being said, I think it is very sad that the natural beauty of America is being blighted by development. That may not sound very "Republican"; but the truth is, Republican principles of punishing crime, giving school choice, cutting taxes etc. will have the natural effect of slowing down suburban sprawl. If our cities are safe, and people can pick their own school, and if taxes were lowered so that industry would move back to the urban centers then nobody would want to live 50 miles away and our countryside would still be countryside.
Sounds simple? It is. South Jersey exploded with development immediately following the race riots of the 60s when people fled Philadelphia, Chester and Camden as fast as they could. When the cities jacked up the taxes on business to make up for the lost revenue, the businesses moved to the burbs. When the businesses and the people moved to the burbs, they had to build shopping centers and big highways and schools and hospitals .... all with no public transportation infrastructure.
Cassy L; When I was at the hospital the other day I overheard a man talk about drilling
for our own oil, he said this:
He don't care where they drill for the oil but they better do it.
NJ, I just don't think God put the oil here for us just to sit and do nothing. If that be the case we wouldn't of had a man on the moon.
Of course that was a dem Prez.
Environmentalists are going too far, it seems they think we can just live by looking pretty.
I agree the timing of this is suspect.
The dems feel they can talk us to death, there I agree with Ann Coulter.
If this was about their pay raises they'd be falling all over themselves to vote YES.
We can have both IF they'd listen to experts. Right now they think THEY are the experts.
I'd say gore is laughing all the way to the bank.
Congress acts as if we are their children and they are the parents that hand out allowances.
Dean; Oil companies in this country are the most heavily regulated in the world. They can't fart without signing affidavits and agreeing to pre-fart inspections.
ANWR is flat, barren, no mountains or tree's, just barren land despite what the enviro-whack jobs want you to believe. Nothing there except ice in the winter and tundra in summer. The North Slope of Alaska is another barren region. The whacko enviro's would have you believe the land around ANWR is scenic beauty when in fact it is not.
The Caribou don't seem to mind ANWR. In fact, they seem to be thriving.....apparently.
Enviro's also claim transporting nuke waste is hazardous to us all. Where is the proof? There have been no accidents in transporting this stuff and again just like the oil companies this hazardous waste is the most heavily regulated in the world.
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