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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Yeah, I don't call him Rick "Neutrino" Perry for nothing.
Cheers!
Both governors of large energy states. What's to imitate?
The Apollo Alliance is a project organized by the Institute for America’s Future and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. The Alliance is a project of the Tides Center.
Its goals include establishing energy independence for the United States of America, as well as developing cleaner and more efficient energy alternatives. Its allies are drawn from businesses, environmental organizations, and over 30 labor unions.
The Alliance’s current Chair is former California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, who is currently the Chair of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader (2007-present) from Nevada, credited the Apollo Alliance with helping to create the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (also known as the stimulus bill): “This legislation is the first step in building a clean energy economy that creates jobs and moves us closer to solving our enormous energy and environmental challenges,” he said. “We’ve talked about moving forward on these ideas for decades. The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Alliance
Van Jones helped found Apollo and served on its board until recently-alongside Gerry Hudson of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), former Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) supporter Carl Pope and Joel Rogers-founder of the radical New Party-which Barack Obama joined in Chicago in 1995.
Despite its power Appollo is a relatively small organization on the ground with only fourteen affiliates nationwide-one of them being Van Jones’ tiny Oakland California based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.
The New York state Apollo Alliance Director is Jeff Jones.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/08/obamas-green-czar-is-a-terrorist.html
Good! Good! Good!
I agree. I would be willing to consider accepting land for my forced SS “contributions”.
No, a better idea would be to return all Federal land back to each state subject to:
- it being immediately leased to (American) private enterprise for mining/drilling/farming where feasible
- mandate 100% American labor and equipment be used.
Perry would likely open it up to foreign companies and his legions of in-state tuition illegal alien college graduates.
Sorry Anita, just another heartless racist persecuting your husband because of his faith... /s
And what prevents future presidents/congresses from reimposing these same regulations?
Starting with lowering the price of energy by increasing the supply, as the underpinning of an economic plan, is superior to starting with attempting rejiggering ways to tax people.
Not against tax reform, but not sure we want a national sales tax, period.
But if you lower energy costs, it will help us at the cash register, not hurt us at the cash register. Energy costs are pushing everything up...if they don’t raise the price they just sell you less.
And to increase the supply you need a lot more workers. Jobs, jobs, jobs,
And gets us off foreign sources...a great thing!
...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.
It's a great idea and a great campaign sound bite, how much drilling might be a bit disappointing.
If he had said, by the end of my first 4 years I want to add 1mm bbl/d or something of that nature it would make more sense.
Sounds good to me but I would go further.
Instead of “opening” federal land...which could be closed again (Clinton - Utah) Sell the land outright for market value.
Most folks have NEVER driven across the U.S.A. and have no idea how large the place is. Second they have NO idea how much is gub mint land.
Drill.
The idea needs a major change.
Instead of “open federal lands”, how about “return federal lands taken from the states, so *they* can open them?”
If he would just pull his head out of his azz on the damn illegals I could support him!
His effort in Nevada appears weak, none of his campaign materials have been readily available here as of this week.
He needs to start spending time here, our caucus is mid January.
And he needs to get his plan to deal with the illegals strait.
1. Perry: Drill, Drill, Drill!
2. Romney: Pander, Pander, Pander!
3. Cain: Tax, Tax, Tax!
I’ll take door #1, thanks for the post tobyhill! :)
Sell hell!
In Nevada and some other western states just return them to the state, they were taken in an unconstitutional manner.
States have a better understanding and incentive to use lands wisely, the Fed. just use them to grow bureaucracy.
i don’t understand your comment.
if the public land were sold to private individuals and companies, then the u.s. debt could be paid down.
the land would still be in nevada and subject to nevada laws;
the difference is, the feds wouldn’t be controlling what should be within a state’s purview.
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