I watched Chris Dodd suggest raising taxes to support alternative fuel and solve the energy situation.
If Senator Dodd were serious about solving our energy dependency, there are other things that can he done, better and faster.
1. Encourage and give tax credits for nuclear power plants to build more and increase their use.
2. Allow drilling in ANWR and off shore where we know oil is located.
3. Encourage more refinery construction and production to provide more fuel. As well as offering tax incentives and relaxing federal mandates.
4. Get off the environmental myths and fantasies.
5. Help Al Gore find a real job.
Red State also points out what a liar Edwards is: “Edwards said that he’s never been to Iraq, and he said he couldn’t go as a civilian. His peeps, he said, are trying to find a way to get him there as a civilian: “If there’s any way I can go, I’m going.” (I’m at a loss for words, right now. Victoria and Jeff have just returned from Iraq.)”
How many “civilians” do we know of who have been to Iraq...Rush, Sean, Laura Ingraham, Debbie Argel, etc.
Edwards just doesn’t want to take a chance on getting his pretty self hurt.
1. Encourage and give tax credits for nuclear power plants to build more and increase their use.
Even more specific, change the legal climate for nuclear power, allowing progress without baseless legal challenges and develop solid government approved standards for nuclear designs that avoid customized engineering solutions to every installation. Rickover did it on difficult floating platforms called naval vessels.