[milwguy]

The elite in Washington ignores the businesses that employ the people who pay their wages. Instead of addressing energy crisis by drilling and promoting true alternatives, they are in the pockets of ethanol whores like ADM, wind whores like GE, and Cap and Trade whores like AL Gore.

[WarToad]

And here come the domino’s....

[RDasher]

milwguy wrote: “...they are in the pockets of ethanol whores like ADM, wind whores like GE, and Cap and Trade whores like AL Gore.”

Don’t forget the CFL whores (GE, Phillips, etal), and the corn whores (farm lobby, and Sen Grassley)

[crz]

I wonder when the hell the American public is going to really get with it on this and go to DC and really raise hell. It is obvious they (polititions) dont care one bit.

All I hear is bitch and moan but nothing is being done to really shake them up.

[RightWhale]

Washington has failed to address the issue of rising energy costs and, as a result, the country now faces a true energy crisis

It is not a crisis but chronic, and Washington can do nothing.

[Brilliant]

So why doesn’t this guy run for Congress? If you have idiots in Washington, you’ll have idiotic policies.

[Sicon]

Well, at least we’re seeing the point being made in the MSM that Washington’s total failure to deal with energy policy has brought us to this point. It will become increasingly difficult for Washington to pin the blame on Big Oil or Big Whomever, when every business in the country is pointing the finger at them and their idiotic policies.

[1rudeboy]

Note that this guy doesn’t even get the opportunity to testify before Congress . . . and this storm has been brewing a long, long time.

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[sheana]

Cap and Trade whores like AL Gore.

Cap and Trade whores like John McCain.

Fixed it for you.

[GBA]

Chief Executive Andrew Liveris obviously didn't get the memo that it's greedy big oil's fault, not the government's. The even more obvious solution is to tax and punish the oil companies even more rather than giving them incentives to explore and drill more, as well as build more refineries. We shouldn't build any new, clean burning coal power plants to use our abundant coal reserves, either. Those 30+ year old power plants are just fine, even if they'll be 40 or 50+ years old by the time one being built today would be on line. No, the solution is to elect more liberal politicians who will solve these problems...just as soon as they fix Social Security.

[MississippiMan]

This is the kind of attention that needs to be brought to bear on this issue. It’s of course a multi-faceted problem but the bottom line is that it’s largely created by liberalism and our failure as a country to stand up a long time ago and say, “Enough is enough.”

We’ve been frogs in a slowly heating pot for decades and now that the water is at 211 degrees we’re scratching our heads and wondering what the heck is going on with the water.

MM

[OldNavyVet]

The government's failure to develop a comprehensive energy policy is causing ...

Blaming economic problems on government exonerates the real culprit. This phrase should read ...

Congressional failure to develop a comprehensive energy policy is causing ... "

[abercrombie_guy_38]

As another Freeper has mentioned, we need a Manhattan Project for energy. Over time, we need to get off oil and invent a solution that we ultimately control, not the markets or foreign countries.

Drilling in ANWR is short-term, drilling in the Colorado-Utah-Wyoming area is medium-term but we need to find something else other than oil for the long term.

[Paradox]

Washington caved to the Enviroweenies. We should have continued going Nuclear, but noooooooo. And once we had Electricity “too cheap to meter”, then we could have converted that to whatever form we needed for transportation..

[GraniteStateConservative]

He’s an Aussie and he just gave the maximum allowed ($2300) to Hillary, via his wife, Paula.

[Ditto]

"The government's failure to develop a comprehensive energy policy is causing U.S. industry to lose ground when it comes to global competitiveness, and our own domestic markets are now starting to see demand destruction throughout the U.S."

I have come to the conclusion that the paradigm that needs to be destroyed is the concept that the government should dictate a "comprehensive energy policy" of any kind. That, IMHO, is the root of the problem.

No comprehensive policy on an industry as complex and dynamic as energy supply developed by people in Washington will ever be anything more than a train wreck waiting to happen.