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That’s why I like Palin...one the biggest advocates for domestic energy production.
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"Progressives", other communists and America Haters will be up all night chewing their nails to the quick.
Seeing America become energy independant and bounce back from the depression they have put us in is the last thing they want to see.
It would be one of their worst nightmares come true.
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I wonder if the coal industry has been lobbying against natural gas. Foes of natural gas seem to have access to a lot of money lately.
Of course we can. Problem is liberals and spineless repubs won’t allow us to become just that.
Whoever runs on a cheap energy platform will have a message that will resonate with voters. A major part of that platform will be restoring the strength of the American dollar.
We can have less than $1/gallon gas if we have the will to squash the enviro-nuts.
To say nothing of the Ben Bernank's redoubled efforts to lower the value of the dollars used to pay for said oil.
The faster oil increases in price the closer we get to some energy independence, jobs and good profits. The oil and gas Obama is keeping in the ground now is money in bank, growing in value.
You may wish to invest with that in mind, assuming you have a flexible time horizon for realizing profits.
There is one big benefit to dependence on foreign energy: When theirs runs out (and it won't be soon), we'll still have ours.
Eliminate the DOE and let the states have the money for energy development.
We need the entire triumvirate of proven American energy products - Nuclear, petroleum and coal.
Let the cost of upgrading the grid be borne by our quickly burgeoning energy sector - deregulate it all.
OK, so how can we create a proposal to lease rights to develop this resource and use the lease income to reduce the federal debt? It seems to me that a well constructed proposal along those lines could create a good bit of populist traction. Kills the twin albatross of energy dependence and runaway debt with one well cracked shale stone, potentially.
Other than the fact that the Obamassiah “won’t allow it”, am I missing out on a legit, market-based reason why we don’t have a full court press on this?