Energy

By Dr. Richard Swier

As previously posted on Red County

Former Clinton Labor Secretary, Robert Reich has publicly called for the government to seize the North American operations of BP.  Here’s his rationale:

Salazar’s Interior Department wrapped in cover-up scandal

by Vince Haley, for BIGGOVERNMENT.com 

If you’re the President of the United States or one of his political appointees and you’re ideologically opposed to new oil and natural gas development offshore, what do you do when the public registers its overwhelming support for new drilling in public opinion polls?

By Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.)
Ranking Member, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

By Brian Anderson, Contributing Editor

The intensity of the discourse on health care reform has thus far overshadowed the discussion on another liberal agenda item: cap-and-trade. Like health care reform, cap-and-trade proposals would have an adverse affect on all Americans, particularly low income and middle income households.  

A new government report released just last month from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) reveals that America’s combined supply of recoverable natural gas, oil, and coal is the largest on earth. In fact, the CRS report shows that America’s recoverable resources are far larger than those of Saudi Arabia (3rd), China (4th), and Canada (6th) combined. And that’s without including America’s immense oil shale and methane hydrates deposits. These astonishing statistics show that an all-of-the-above energy policy is the right course for America.

The intensity of the discourse on health care reform has thus far overshadowed the discussion on another liberal agenda item: cap-and-trade. Like health care reform, cap-and-trade proposals would have an adverse affect on all Americans, particularly low income and middle income households.

The President has called on Congress to enact legislation to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. He has suggested that this legislation is necessary to stop global warming and to transition our nation to “clean” energy. While I support the President’s intentions, I’m concerned that his path to make this happen will have a disastrous impact on our nation’s ability to produce the energy we need to help jumpstart our economy.