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Darrell Castle on Energy & Oil |
CASTLE: Disagree.
Darrell Castle's answer: No
Gary Johnson's answer: No
Donald Trump's answer: No, and global warming is a natural occurrence
Q: Should the government give tax credits and subsidies to the wind power industry?
Darrell Castle's answer: No, end all tax credits and subsidies to the energy industry
Gary Johnson's answer: No
Donald Trump's answer: No, and the government should never support unproven technologies
Q: Do you support the use of hydraulic fracking to extract oil and natural gas resources?
Darrell Castle's answer: Yes, energy independence is absolutely critical to the United States
Gary Johnson's answer: Yes, but increase oversight
Donald Trump's answer: Yes
Q: Should the U.S. expand offshore oil drilling?
Darrell Castle's answer: Yes
Gary Johnson's answer: Yes, and deregulate the energy sector
Donald Trump's answer: Yes
A: I think that the United States should start trying desperately to produce its own energy. We're doing that to some extent. We say we don't like fracking and we don't like the Keystone pipeline but we don't mind doing it in other countries. In other words, if we buy our energy from Saudi Arabia, we don't really care what happens to their environment. It's kind of a silly argument to me. It causes a lot of violence in the world when we don't produce our own energy because we have to humble ourselves. Saudi Arabia, one of the most oppressive regimes in the world according to our friends at the U.N., they beheaded 150 people last year, we have to go to those people and do deals with them as the President just did when he flew over there. He told them that we would guarantee their security, them and the other Gulf monarchies. I'm completely flabbergasted and opposed to that sort of thing, and if we produced our own energy, we wouldn't have to do it.
A: We could produce our own oil, and what we can't produce, we can buy from friendly countries like Canada. And if there's green energy available to be produced, I mean, there's technologies out there that I don't have the technical experience to understand. I think there's new technologies. I would start with trying to develop our own petroleum energy and see where that took me.