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Republicans' New Energy Plan

by Steven D
Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 at 08:31:38 AM EST

Same as the old plan:

President Bush said yesterday that the relatively little damage suffered by oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico because of Hurricane Gustav should prod Congress to open more coastal areas to offshore oil drilling, sounding a political note in the wake of the storm.
Bush, who plans to travel to Louisiana today, said there were "encouraging signs" that Gustav did not cause significant harm to the oil fields along the Gulf Coast. But he said the storm's impact on oil supplies and energy markets underscores the need for expanded offshore exploration.
"When Congress comes back, they've got to understand that we need more domestic energy, not less," Bush said before a morning meeting with senior aides to assess Gustav's damage to energy supplies. "One place to find it is offshore America, lands that have been taken off the books, so to speak, by congressional law."

Hurricanes? That means we must drill for more offshore oil. And we should probably lease those areas to Big Oil free of charge. And give them a tax cut or government funding or something to help them out building new oil platforms in areas subject to hurricanes. Conservation? Energy efficiency. T. Boone Pickens vaunted windmills? Solar power? All worthless. We need more O-I-L! And if we just let Big Oil do whatever they want it will magically reduce the price of gas, restore our economy to prominence and increase the sex drive of every man over the age of 35, while simultaneously reducing the risk of breast cancer. But more importantly, it will make John McCain and George Bush happy. And when they're happy we're happy. Right?

Hey, makes sense to me.

Ps. We should also do this because John McCain was a POW.

Pps. And anyone who opposes this plan is just being mean to Sarah Palin.

Ppps. Want to start a pool on how quickly Democrats fold on this one?

Republicans' New Energy Plan | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Republicans' New Energy Plan (4.00 / 2)

Oil is an obsolete commodity for energy production. Note today at Raw Story, 2 more ice shelfs broke away from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, and reports of Greendland's ice cap melting rapidly have been on the inter tubes for several days now.

It's good to make fun of these absurd policies, I laughed and gave Salunga a 4 for morning humor, but the fact is, this is a serious maneuver, to pretend that more burning of carbon is somehow "OK." It's not just profit at stake here, it's the life of the planet. We can choose.

Share. Share resources, share delight, share burdens, share the healing. Sharing will bring us back from mass suicide. www.share-international.org

by Isis on Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 at 10:30:42 AM EST

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LOL! We are deep into bizarre logic land. Frantically click your heels together if there is still time. I want to go home now. Please!

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 at 08:56:28 AM EST

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But many very serious people will laud this approach. So we should just shut up and let them have their way becaus ethey know what's best.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 at 09:03:03 AM EST
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