texracr
Joined: 7-21-2006
City: Space City, USA
Posts: 7788
Let the Energy Buffalo Run Free
7/12/2008 7:09 AM
The Nuge' for Congress 

We've got plenty of energy in America. What we don’t have are statesmen willing to let the free market here capture it, process it and sell it.

Instead of wisely utilizing our abundant energy, America has been strangled by
various federal government bureaucracies, untold reams of burdensome government regulations and counterproductive policies, corrupt environmental special interest groups, and professional politicians who will bend whichever way the prevailing political winds blow.

These are the reasons America hasn't built a new oil refinery or new nuclear reactor in thirty or so years. Instead, as billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens accurately stated the other day, we are transferring hundreds of billions of our national treasury to other nations. Even to our enemies. Truly bizarre.

Call me crazy, but I thought the goal of America was to be independent. It’s time to call a spade a spade. We are energy slaves to lesser countries. They own us. And unless we resurrect that unstoppable, mighty spirit of rugged independent individualism of our forefathers and throw off the energy shackles, these nations can permanently cripple, if not kill, our economy.



I agree with The Nuge'........it's a disgrace for America to be held hostage by oil-producing nations that are our enemies.

Fact is, America has more energy in its coal reserves than Saudi Arabia has in its oil reserves. Anything that can be made out of oil can also be made out of coal.

We've invested hundreds of millions of dollars in clean coal technologies and pollution controls. We've proven that mined land can be successfully reclaimed. We know how to economically produce synthetic fuels and other products from coal.

I'm all for increasing the use of wind, solar, and nuclear power. I'm all for drilling for more oil in the U.S.


From the Article:
........Of course we should drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Had we done what we should have done ten years ago to assure America’s independence, we would have been drilling in ANWR long ago. Had Senators Obama and McCain put America’s independence first, they would have brought up legislation to drill in ANWR instead of voting to make America more energy dependent. What's with these guys?

The same goes for off shore drilling. Environmental special interests have locked up over 80% of energy rich off shore areas from American energy companies. As George Will illuminated in his brilliant June 5, 2008 op-ed “The Gas Prices We Deserve,” it is estimated the energy in these areas contains over 80 billion barrels of oil and over 400
trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

......America gets 20% of our electricity from 104 nuclear power plants. Europe generates 80% of its electricity from nuclear power. Nuclear power is the cleanest, most efficient, safest energy source we could harness. Senator McCain has proposed building 40 more nuclear power plants. I say we build three times that many and sell the excess energy! Senator Obama is not so sure about nuclear power. What, Senator Obama, are you not so sure about?
ritepath
Joined: 7-21-2006
City: End of Hell
State: Virginia
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Let the Energy Buffalo Run Free
7/12/2008 8:13 AM
Why do you hate America?

Obama's not sure the environuts will vote for him...that's why he won't support Nuclear plants. He's got to keep all his fringe groups under his tent to win this thing.