Posted on 08/26/2008 8:38:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
Energy Policy: The speaker of the House touts natural gas as an "alternative fuel like wind." Could it be that this time she's put her money where her mouth is? Yes, it's clean-burning — "the cleanest of all fossil fuels," as the Natural Gas Supply Organization puts it. But it's still a fossil fuel formed deep within the earth, like its coal and petroleum cousins, by extreme pressure and heat. Speaker Pelosi, who has taken a lot of heat and pressure herself for leading this "drill nothing" Congress, talked on Sunday's "Meet The Press" about an energy policy as incoherent as that of her party's presidential candidate, Barack Obama. "I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels," she said at one point. Natural gas "is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels," she said at another. She may be forgiven for her confusion. It's hard to be Speaker, dictate U.S. energy policy and manage your energy investments all at the same time.
Somewhere in the universe there may be a planet where natural gas is considered an alternative form of energy, but on this one it's still considered a fossil fuel.
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She can always take Joan Rivers’ place on commercials:
Am I smiling?
Is my face broken?
The fact is, as syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin reports, the Speaker’s 2007 financial disclosure form Schedule III lists “Assets and Unearned Income” of between $101,000 and $250,000 from Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (CLNE) Public Common Stock. All on the expectation of, uh, windfall profits?
Federal lands, according to the American Petroleum Institute, hold 651 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, enough to fuel 60 million households for 160 years. Some 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to the U.S. Minerals Management Service, can be found in the Outer Continental Shelf.
Point taken about natural gas but since when was wind a fuel? Unless she meant the kind of wind that you break...
The answer may be that oil and natural gas are usually found in the same place at the same time. Such was the case at Prudhoe Bay, just 60 miles west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where Pelosi and her Democratic friends block drilling for either.
It's worth noting that in Colorado, home to the Democratic National Party Convention, producing natural gas is big business. In 2006, more than $7 billion worth was produced from over 20,000 wells with nary a windmill in sight.
We're not against true alternative forms of energy. We're all for American forms of energy and believe we should produce as much as we can everywhere we can in all forms. Then all the American people, and not just Nancy Pelosi, can profit.
Greed ad hypocrisy are still Pelosi’s mainstay.
Bwahahaha that’s a good one. She probably does
Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
Ah, that would be T Boone Pickens company. now all they
need is a government mandate to force us all to drive
CNG cars. Oh, wait that would be Rohm Emanuels bill.
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“Were in the money”
Yes, it is. Probably from decades of strip-mining for botox.
“I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” she said at one point. Natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels,” she said at another.
She is pushing this Because She is cutting a deal with T.Boone Pickins the Oil Billionaire. He owns a ton of Natural Gas and wants to use wind Power becuae He owns those too in Texas....He is Playing Pelosi like the Stupid corrupt Moron She is... just connect the dots! and “follow the Money”
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