Letter to the editor:

Republicans also reject green energy

Glen Kaner, Las Vegas

Wed, May 14, 2008 (2:03 a.m.)

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Lee S. Gliddon Jr., in his Monday letter to the editor, put the blame for high energy costs on the Democrats. In particular, he blamed the Democrats for refusing to allow offshore drilling and wind farms off the coast of New England.

But the governors of the two states who fought offshore drilling, Florida and California, are Republicans, not Democrats. The previous Florida governor was the president’s brother, and he opposed offshore drilling.

And the governor of Massachusetts who opposed wind farms off the coast was Mitt Romney.

Discussion: 5 comments so far…

By NVMakz

5/14/08 at 6:23 a.m.

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Cherry-picking while the tree is falling over from rot is small debate technique. One or two examples, in the avalanche of lib-ecoists sabotaging our economy and national security indicating otherwise == is nothing at all in rebuke.

Democrats, Global warming moonies and eco-facists ARE responsible for the high oil/gas/nat. gas prices and their historic rise. the 2006 Congress "promised" to deal with this, and has abandoned anything but bashing, shaking down and wanting to over-tax the very companies which has one of the toughest jobs on the planet.
By JohnF

5/14/08 at 1:21 p.m.

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Environmental regulations were stricter during the Clinton administration than they are now. President Bush has relaxed pretty much every rule on the books (when he chooses to enforce them at all), including opening up Bristol Bay (in Alaska) for exploration and drilling. Dick Cheney invited the oil companies in to formulate our national energy policy and somehow it's the fault of the Democrats that oil prices are skyrocketing. Yeah, I can believe that.
By NVMakz

5/14/08 at 5:13 p.m.

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When formulating energy policies, who should an Administration "talk to"(mq)? Butlers? Landscapers?

How about real-life energy execs?? That's the ticket!

When the Clintonistas were in, they - fronted by Algore - mainly talked to the greenest of the green and their eco-facist attack dogs, when Clinton wasn't golfing with the CEOs of those oil companies.

Supply while alternatives are developed is the answer and its being choked and constipated by eco-facists for the last 30 years.

Ecos are most certainly responsible for the lack of keeping up with world-wide market forces.

It will take a national effort to break the grip of those who hate us.

Democrats ARE more, much more responsible than the Republican. For sure!
By JohnF

5/14/08 at 6:25 p.m.

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"Supply while alternatives are developed is the answer..."

I fully agree, but how much time and energy (pun intended) has the Bush Administration spent on development of alternative energy sources? I'll answer that one myself: almost none. Why? Because it's not in the best interests of those who set our energy policy. Namely, the oil companies.

The total focus of our energy policy the past eight years has been to increase the supply of oil, from opening up Alaskan wilderness for drilling to invading Iraq. And please don't tell me that the invasion of Iraq was about something other than oil. We all know better than that. If we didn't know it five years ago we certainly know it today.

The faster we rid ourselves of our oil addiction the more secure our nation will be. We've wasted the last eight years when it comes to developing alternatives. Let's get started.
By NVMakz

5/14/08 at 6:49 p.m.

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The future need not be the past. Each day is a new day to start again.

This choking and gagging is negating SO many national needs and goals that == will hold back the development of what's next.

I do not agree with the "eight years wasted" comment. We all have been awakened to our "footprints" and how we can manage them. I sure do!

Like a boa constrictor, the anti-anythingenergy crew has been winning = 30 years or so. The results are what we see today.

"rid ourselves of our oil addiction"??? The best way out is sometimes through!! "WE" can buy 60-90 years, while the financials will develop to make whole industries in Green-Stuff....

Shriveling down the global terror-oilfacists is another plus. The oil economics are already there. Strengthening the dollar for our children??

The Democratic's "jones"(mq) with constriction and attack of "The American Way" is just historically ill.

Iraq: ims, most of the oil futures contracts were NOT acquired by "American" Oil! Freedom, the chance for a new day, the chance to force the ones who "believed until they did not believe" to vote to continue to pay for it == that's the ticket.

WHY, oh WHY - does the liberal reek such havoc????