Competing Energy Plans
This weekend, Mike Pence delivered the Republican radio address. In doing so, he touched a nerve with Speaker Pelosi. I suspect that it’s something that she’ll regret after the dust settles. Here’s what the AP is reporting:
“The Republican energy plan calls for more domestic exploration for oil and natural gas, renewed commitment to clean emission-free nuclear energy, investments in renewable and alternative energy technologies and incentives to spur greater conservation among individuals and businesses,” he said.
The GOP plan calls for using revenue from more oil and gas drilling to promote renewable energy such as wind and solar; it also makes it easier to get approval to build more nuclear power plants. The proposal also sets a goal of doubling the number of nuclear reactors over the next 20 years.
When Pence introduced the GOP measure, the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called it “the same tired policies embraced” for years by former President George W. Bush “at a time when Americans are seeking new solutions to rebuild our economy and break our dependence on foreign energy sources.”
Speaker Pelosi’s ‘remedy’ is to tax anyone who uses more energy than the government wants us to use. She won’t consider increasing domestic energy supplies. She won’t let any legislation be debated, much less voted on, that includes increasing nuclear power, which is totally free of greenhouse gas emissions.
Simply put, Speaker Pelosi wants the federal government to limit the choices that We The People have. Speaker Pelosi’s goal is to pass a national energy tax. PERIOD. She doesn’t want us making our own decisions.
It’s time that We The People told Ms. Pelosi and the Democrats that she works for us, not vice versa. It’s time that We The People told Ms. Pelosi and the Democrats that they’d better have irrefutable evidence that the things that they’re limiting are dangerous to our health.
Ms. Pelosi and the Democrats keep talking about greenhouse gas emissions as though they were killing our planet. Part of Al Gore’s schtick is his lunatic rantings about polar ice caps melting, raising ocean levels so much that Florida ceases to exist.
Thus far, there isn’t proof that that’s happening, though there’s theories aplenty.
What the arguments essentially boil down to is whether you believe in controlling people’s lives because your special interest allies demand that in exchange for campaign contributions vs. whether (a) you believe that We The People should have access to this nation’s natural resources and (b) you believe that these natural resources should be used to increase We The People’s prosperity.
That’s an easy decision with me. Last summer, with gas hitting $4 a gallon, 75% of the people agreed with me.
The Pelosi Democrats’ solution isn’t a solution. It’s a tax increase. PERIOD. It’s an assault of our freedoms, with artificial science being cited as justification.
It’s time we rejected the Democrats’ non-solution energy solution.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
June 15th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Destroy the coal industry, and tax the crap out of distllate petroleum fuels, thereby creating another financial crisis in the transportation industries, leading to another bailout and takeover of railroads, air lines and merchant marine and by the Fed.
Sounds like an (Obama) energy plan to me.