Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/24/2010 5:40:04 AM PST by rabscuttle385
2011 could bring some quick indications on whether this year's collapse of energy and climate legislation in the Senate created lasting wounds.
Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) chatted Wednesday about reviving their partnership on energy, Lieberman told E2.
“It is one of the things we want to work on together next year, start again,” Lieberman said Wednesday in the Capitol. His comments come as President Obama in the new year will seek talks with Republicans on energy.
Lieberman said areas on the table include a “clean-energy standard” for utilities, which Graham is already pushing, and efforts to boost natural gas and nuclear power development.
“It is not going to be as big or comprehensive as the American Power Act,” Lieberman said, referring to the unsuccessful cap-and-trade and energy bill he unveiled with Kerry. “But we can do something here.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
We need some serious energy legislation now. Pass a law that mandates drilling for domestic oil and building nuclear plants in every state! Of course, that’s not what they’re talking about.
It seems these baboso’s didn’t get the message in November that we want LESS f-ing gub mint control.
Get ready for a contentious year or so.
Lieberman and Graham and so many others should be made to walk the plank. Arrrr.
Lindsey Graham must have got some more $$$ from George Soros.
Time for old Holey Joe to go.
gas prices up 43% from last year. Time to kill any chance of growth.
“But we can do something here.”
It may not be rational or based on something petty like science but we can do something to preserve the shreds of any illusion that we have common sense or, indeed, any place whatsoever in this congress.
Joe and Linda have issued a statement: “All your energy belong to us.”
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Energy doesn’t need any more legislation. It needs power plants and room to move out into a FREE MARKET! It needs refineries and drilling holes in good old American earth!
It needs an end to corruption, greed and avarice and the unbridled LUST for power, but, seeing the “the heart is deceitful above all and desperately wicked”, that ain’t gonna happen, no matter what the political party is called.
The primaries for 12 are going to be fun. A lot of RINO hunting will be going on. The season opens in January and there is no bag limit. RINOS are dumb animals and still have not gotten the message.
Energy reform starts with unplugging those malefactors from their Senate seats.
HB001: Effective immediately the EPA will be defunded by 95 %
That is why I can’t fathom why these fools continue to be like McKane or Graham?
Lieberman and Graham are totally unreliable agents to direct any solution to any of the nation’s problems. They have a proven track record of detrimental performance.
The voters in South Carolina should be taxed every time they turn on their mercury bulbs or their cold little heaters for sending that Democrat-loving wuss Graham to represent their state. Leave the voters in sane states alone!
Remove and replace the EPA.
Allow more oil drilling, ease off regulations, restrictions and bureaucratic red tape involved in increasing refining capabilities.
There you go, I just solved the energy problem.
Next problem?
We need “positive regulations” - regulations that reward an activity instead of punishing it. If development of new energy sources, ones with a reasonable chance of coming into the market in 5 - 10 years, is actively rewarded we will see new sources. From what I have seen every new energy source is immediately saddled with heavy restrictions and regulatory costs long before the first piece of land is cleared
Why do something new when you have to pay for the activity long before it starts making money for you?
Proof of statement - “A little bit of honey makes the medicine go down”, “you catch more flys with honey than vinegar”, and how many more such statements do I have to quote. They remain in the language because they are truths; its that simple.
If we didn’t have to pay such high taxes on gasoline, that would help, too.
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