Posted on 10/15/2011 9:36:36 AM PDT by tobyhill
Rick Perry unveiled an energy plan Friday that he said would lead to a job boom but would also strip federal regulations for clean air and usher in an open season for drilling on federal lands and American coastlines.
Speaking outside a steel plant in suburban Pennsylvania, Perry rolled out his plan, designed to put him into the discussion with rival Mitt Romney’s 150-page jobs plan and Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax policy.
“The quickest way to give our economy a shot in the arm is to deploy American ingenuity to tap American energy. But we can only do that if environmental bureaucrats are told to stand down,” Perry said.
His said his plan would create 1.2 million jobs and help end the nation’s reliance on foreign oil.
It would open up millions of acres in Alaska — including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — and western states to oil and gas drilling. In addition, the Gulf Coast, the southern Atlantic coast, and Alaskan seas would be open, and the 1,700-mile Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL pipeline would be approved.
He said that other than the wildlife refuge, most of the lands could be thrown open through executive action and without congressional consent.
The other aspect of the plan deals with suspending large swaths of the Clean Air and Endangered Species Acts, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and cutting its budget by 60 percent.
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Good!
A fine imitation of Sarah, don’t you think?
Drill here. Drill now? Drill, baby, drill? Oh my.
That too.
Best plan from a candidate so far.
Herman Cain on Energy Independence (May)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDRyOeZoEs
Herman Cain: America Will Be Its Own Best Customer! (July)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpBKNmEudDo
Herman Cain on Energy “I Will Deal With the EPA”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8HcqSWaysk
Oil Abounds in America, but Democrats Vote to Keep It In the Ground
May 26, 2008
By Herman Cain
http://economicfreedomcoalition.com/news/press-opinion-052608.asp
Yup. A day late and a dollar short, but better late than never I guess.
Perry is the remaining conservative candidate.
I could see a perry/bachman ticket as just fine.
Few are looking at Perry. But here is some stuff:
Perry has of the current field the best record of experience in governance and service to his country.
We should not use MSM standards to judge Rick Perry. Its exactly what the left wants to happen. Yes he has conservative shortcomings in several areas of his record, on immigration policy for example, but he stands head and shoulders above all of them on governance experience and service to the nation and his sins are minor compared to Romney’s.
We shouldn’t elect a TV personna this time,besides, he often carries a Ruger .380 auto when he jogs, that alone earns my vote, LOL.
This says it all, Perry will beat the ass off Obama if he secures the nomination,he has nailed him before directly and has the balls to take Obama on face to face as a matter of official duty, unlike any of the other candidates:
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Perry is a good man, the best of the field:
http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2011/09/c130_rick_perry_he_flew_the_wo.html
C-130 Rick Perry: He Flew The World Before Politics
Abilene Online
By Sarah Kleiner Varble
Rank: Retired as a captain
Hometown: Haskell
Crew job: C-130 aircraft commander
Served in the Air Force: 1972 to 1977
Dyess AFB tour: March 4, 1974, to Feb. 28, 1977
His story:Way back before he was governor of Texas, Rick Perry had two choices as a young member of the Air Force.
He could either follow his dream and work toward becoming an instructor pilot in the sleek T-38, or he could fly the hulking C-130, planes that affectionately were referred to as “trash haulers” by Perry and his cohorts.
“There was no telling what you were going to haul around on any given day, from high value cargo like human beings to the colonel’s kitty litter,” Perry told the Reporter-News in a recent phone interview.
He wanted to fly T-38s, but not badly enough to move to Selma, Ala., where he would have been assigned. So, Perry chose to stay in Texas and fly the C-130.
In 1974, he moved to Dyess Air Force Base, about 55 miles from his hometown of Haskell, and began a career that took him all over the world and shaped his political future.
“It was one of the great adventures of my life,” Perry said. “I had a fairly pedestrian life until I was 23 years old.”
Perry could count on one hand the number of trips he had taken out of his home state by the time he graduated from Texas A&M University, but everything changed when he joined the Air Force.
Flying C-130s, Perry lived in Germany and Saudi Arabia. He flew in Central and South America, North Africa and all over Europe.
“I saw all of these different types of governments and I made the connections to how the people acted and looked, and it became abundantly clear to me that, at that particular point in time, that America was this very unique place and that our form of democracy was very rare,” Perry said. “ ... That was the greatest gift I received from my years of being in the military, and they really shaped my outlook on the rest of my life.”
Perry retired from the Air Force in 1977 — but not without one last adventure.
As his final days approached, Perry was assigned to a mission to “haul trash” to Bermuda with a relatively inexperienced crew.
“I’m sure the young guys stayed up a little longer than the older guy, which would be me at 26 years old,” Perry said, and they fell asleep on the way back to Abilene.
About the time the plane reached Atlanta, a fire light for the No. 3 engine flashed once. And then it flashed again.
Perry poked his co-pilot as the light reappeared and held steady on red.
Using the headset, he asked the loadmaster to take a look at the engine from the window and about that time, the engine exploded and blew a tail pipe off the plane.
“He started screaming that we were on fire and that we were all going to die,” Perry said. “The aircraft operated as advertised and flies amazingly well on three engines.”
Perry and his crew were stuck at Pope Air Force Base while awaiting a new engine. With three days left in his enlistment, Perry called the command post at Dyess and informed them that they would have to send a new pilot along with the engine if they didn’t hurry.
“I said, ‘In three days, I’m not Captain Perry anymore, I’m Mr. Perry, and I’m going home,” Perry said.
The engine arrived and the plane returned to Dyess in time for Perry to retire Feb. 28, as planned.
He went on to be elected to the state House of Representatives, agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor and, finally, governor of Texas.
Does it matter who does it as long as it gets done?
a better idea would be to sell federal lands and pay off the national debt.
And juan mccain was a war hero.
Can’t go there Candor. There are two columns for perry. Pro and Con.
The Con side is getting mighty full.
This is a real sweet story, but Perry busted his moral compass somewhere between the State House and the Ag Commissioners office. People change and ofter times not for the better.
a better idea would be to sell federal lands and pay off the national debt.
Sell them to who and what would they do with the lands?
Then would we have $2/gallon gasoline?
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