Posted on 10/29/2008 12:57:41 PM PDT by pissant
Sarah Palin went to a solar plant in Ohio to talk about oil today.
he Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate reiterated that McCain-Palin administration would make “energy independence” its cornerstone with the by-now familiar mix of more domestic oil production, more nuclear power, more clean coal, and support for renewable energy. (The prepared remarks are here.)
For Gov. Palin, the centerpiece of the move toward more energy independence is more domestic oil production, Gov. Palin said, with a nod to Charles Krauthammer. But there’s more: “[W]e can drill, and refine, and mine, enrich, reprocess, invent, build, conserve, grow, and use every available means to regain our independence.”
Never mind that at a think-tank speech in Washington, former CIA director John Deutch was busy pointing out Wednesday that energy has always had a national security component and that “energy independence is not feasible” for the U.S. or its closest allies.
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Heard the gov. this morning on Fox. She made the most sense of any politician I have heard in the last 30 years.
When is the American public going to start waking up to the greatness of America again? Ayers redefining of our school curriculum into indoctrination centers is almost complete--you can tell by the lemmings following Obama into the sea or over the cliff, or as one commentator I read today put it--while lapping up the freebies, the public will not notice the fence being built around them until it is complete and the gate is closed..
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Amd never mind that this former Clinton lackey who managed to get booted for taking top secret documents home on his personal computer has no energy experience and clearly was not compotent to run the CIA in the first place.
That is the kind of 'can't do' attitude that made the USofA the great country that it is today.
Build 1000 nuke plants, drill everywhere, allow the expansion of workable systems, and innovate the next system. Good God I am sick of the 'can't do', stupid, worthless, idiots running, or ruining, this country.
A former CIA director says energy independence is not feasible? Yeah, I guess I can call myself an expert. I can also declare that polio cannot be prevented, manned flight is not possible, computers will never be small enough to be portable. See, I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night, too.
Imagine the high paying jobs and economic expansion this plan would create.
That’s why they don’t like it.
They have emasculated the American Male and want to keep that up until the take over is complete.
LOLOLOL!!
I guess the author doesn't understand the concept of improvement. We don't have to get every single drop of oil from within our borders. But we sure as heck should do better than we do today.
Perhaps we can actually harness forest biomass for energy instead of burning the West up in smoke choking fires every year. About 180,000 acres of my County burned this summer alone. Wouldn’t it be nice if that had been turned into energy rather than CO2, which exaccerbated global warming?
We can get every drop of oil we need from within our borders, and for a long time to come. All we need to do is build more nuke plants, and convert our coal mining from electric generation to creating synthetic petroleum. We also dig/extract oil shale. Without fundamentally changing our energy consumption, we just change the source of the energy.
I will bow to Thackney or other experts around here, but I believe we would need a stable price around $90-$100/bbl to make it feasible, but the economy would and the end result would be worth the present costs.
Step 1. Change the members of our government to elect those that support such a concept.
The United States of America has the most innovative and creative people on the planet. With enough drive, this country can be completely energy independent, but the key to this is our willingness to do so! With energy independence, that problem in the Middle East will go away. This country can become the merchant of reusable power and receive the respect it’s due! Dependence upon foreign oil is the U.S.A.’s addiction, and it must stop!
“Step 1. Change the members of our government to elect those that support such a concept.”
You’ve got that right. There are only 536 people preventing us from energy independence. A small number in a nation of 300 million.
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