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Donald Trump's energy plan: Regulate less, drill more
CNN Money ^ | May 27, 2016 | Matt Egan

Posted on 05/27/2016 7:06:28 PM PDT by Innovative

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To: Farmer Dean
No need really. We've got oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico, off The Eastern Seaboard, Alaska, there's fracking. I'm not saying the coal/oil gas thing shouldn't be tried but the point is we've got the stuff. Drill, baby, drill and the hell with the Middle East and the flipping Arabs.
21 posted on 05/27/2016 8:11:19 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: Innovative

Energy independence is a good thing. We can stockpile then sell to other countries. I liked Trump’s idea about America getting a slice of the profits for the oil flowing from Canada to the Texas/LA coast. Seems only fair just as those who live in Alaska get a taste of the oil profits there.


22 posted on 05/27/2016 8:20:35 PM PDT by Boomer (Immigration without assimilation is invasion.)
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To: dfwgator

Hopefully, I think Trump plans on scrapping the EPA. Environmental issues should be addressed at the state level.


23 posted on 05/27/2016 8:55:17 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“This surpasses all of what GOP presidential candidates have proposed on energy since 1988. How can a NeverTrump movement exist?”

Because everyone knows that Trump is a racist, mysoginistic, islamophobic demagogue.


24 posted on 05/27/2016 8:56:25 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: freepersup

Thanks for posting Trump’s speech. It’s great and I am sure he will keep his promises.


25 posted on 05/27/2016 9:12:44 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: freepersup

Impressive!


26 posted on 05/27/2016 9:25:38 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Innovative

You’re quite welcome. Seeing it in the context of the written word, gives the reader the chance to focus on the meaning at their own pace, and to absorb it at a deeper level. Back to my homework (rereading the speech).


27 posted on 05/27/2016 9:50:53 PM PDT by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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To: Innovative

You’re quite welcome. Seeing it in the context of the written word, gives the reader the chance to focus on the meaning at their own pace, and to absorb it at a deeper level. Back to my homework (rereading the speech).


28 posted on 05/27/2016 10:03:10 PM PDT by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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To: Innovative

That sounds great and all, but American oil is not cost competitive with Middle Eastern Oil, and as long as there’s a natural gas glut, coal is an uneconomical fuel. Trump has not explained how his plan will address that economic fact.


29 posted on 05/27/2016 10:19:38 PM PDT by balch3
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To: Innovative
Regulate less, drill more

No wonder the establishment hates Trump.

Less regulation means they lose control of higher prices and bigger profits.

"Drill more" drives the cost DOWN by elevating the supply and lowering the cost.

30 posted on 05/27/2016 10:34:14 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Farmer Dean

Plunk your money down. Just don’t spend mine trying to do it. I don’t subscribe to a “we” policy in energy. Fracking was an I and me endeavor private individuals spending private capital. Same way it should be for syn fuels.


31 posted on 05/27/2016 11:09:46 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: dfwgator

Make Sarah the Interior Secretary. Lump all of the alphabet appendages under it like EPA, Energy, Transportation, yadda, yadda and start cutting all of the duplication and parallel agencies. The security of being a government employee needs to go the way of the Dodo bird. She has already stated if made Energy Secretary, hers would be the shortest term in history because she would close it immediately.

https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/a


32 posted on 05/28/2016 1:27:09 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: Farmer Dean

“I wonder if the process could be improved”

Just a quick look at history can answer that question. Think of Werner Von Braun and then think of July 20, 1969. Think of the Me-262 and then think of a F-18 Super Hornet.

The reality is that Americans WILL improve anything as long as the government gets the H out of the way!


33 posted on 05/28/2016 1:34:11 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: balch3

Well, I’d certainly like to know what it’s costing the US tax payer to protect Saudi oil fields. Years ago, I heard someone say you should add $100.00USD to each barrel of Saudi oil. That was some 10+ years ago.


34 posted on 05/28/2016 4:15:03 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: Farmer Dean

Just use coal as coal.

The technology for clean use of coal in a modern coal-fired station is extremely good these days.


35 posted on 05/28/2016 4:47:16 AM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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36 posted on 05/28/2016 4:48:51 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: jmacusa

I like the idea of having more options.And yea,if the government would just get out of the way things would be great.


37 posted on 05/28/2016 5:16:03 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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To: FreedomNotSafety
I never suggested a we policy.I merely wondered if the process could be improved to be more viable.
38 posted on 05/28/2016 5:17:44 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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To: agere_contra

I know,but the government keeps interfering.


39 posted on 05/28/2016 5:19:02 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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To: Farmer Dean

You said, “why don’t we do that...”. Who is the we you are referring to?

It’s common on this forum to talk about oil and gas as if it some sort of treasure that we all have in common. But it is not. Real people risk their own money to discover, pump, refine, and distribute this stuff. They should be free to sell it as they see fit. If you haven’t invested your own money in helping develop coal-to-gas then you have answered your own question.


40 posted on 05/28/2016 2:22:10 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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