Cheers!
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Yes, it does. because other stuff comes with the person who is doing it, and as much as I love you, I do not want that person to be Perry. OR romney. Or paul. or huntsman. Or gary johnson. Or Bachmann. And it won’t be Palin. SOOOOO
That's very sound. Private enterprise would be a far better steward of our country's resources than government. Unlike the liberal Ken Burns, I don't think the National Parks were America's best idea. It was socialism then and remains socialism now.
Only one sector of the economy has added jobs since Obama became President. That area is mining. We have more oil and gas jobs and more oil and gas production than when he took office. And yet in this one area of success, the President doesn’t take any credit.
Thanks for this story about Perry.
It's a drain on my brain to deduce.. Cain?
I wouldn't mind Cain. But Perry may surprise you. He may not.
Bit early yet.
But that chump in the debates was NOT the Perry I've known.
I'm still waiting to see if that guy shows up, and this energy positioning is hardly a negative.
List them for me please.
I think DMN is incorrect.
Perry said that he could repeal much if Obamas EPA regulation with executive orders as the EPA is part of the executive branch of government.
Opening federal lands will most likely require congressional approval, and I believe Perry made that clear using ANWR as an example.
DMN is scaremongering tree huggers with this article.
Perry has been working for energy production for way longer than Sarah.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Obama has been systematically shutting down drilling and coal mining.
He deserves no credit. He deserves damnation.
I thought I was reading what you were thinking at the time until I read the name at the bottom. ; )
It's an excellent agenda!
What stunning intellect!
Haha I love that shirt. Is it for sale somewhere? I have a bachelor party coming up..... I think that’d be perfect for the victim (I mean Groom haha).
GREAT!
It really is the first thing he’s said or done in weeks that I know of that I can agree with 100%.
I wish he would sell this as a greater economic plan too because the high cost of energy is likely one of the largest economic problems we have right now. It shows up in the price of everything, especially groceries, and the energy plan would give people some extra disposable income.
“Perry is the remaining conservative candidate.”
No, he simply is not.
Cheers!
He is.
Standby for phase 2 of the plan.
You are correct that the price of energy effects everything.
That is why it is the first thing Perry would address as President.
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