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Pat Buchanan on Energy & Oil
2000 Reform Candidate for President
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Drill in Alaska and play hardball with OPEC
Q: Do you support drilling in Alaska?A: I believe they ought to drill in the ANWR. It’s only a portion of it. There’s five billion barrels of oil there. But more important, the United States, instead of busting up Microsoft, an American asset,
ought to have a national policy to break up the OPEC cartel. It is a price-rigging, criminal conspiracy designed to loot the West and the United States of scores of billions of dollars every single year. Cut off all IMF foreign aid loans
to any country that belongs to OPEC. Tell any country that does belong to OPEC, ‘U.S. security guarantees are going to be lifted unless you drill more oil.’ We have got to play hardball. These people in Washington-Clinton talks about the idea of free
trade and interdependence. These people don’t believe in that. They believe in driving you to the wall. If they get control of a commodity that you don’t have-and the United States needs an America first policy of economic nationalism to deal with it.
Source: Nader-Buchanan debate on ‘Meet the Press’
, Oct 1, 2000
Energy independence by developing Caspian pipelines
Steps to ensure US energy independence include:- an end to draw-downs of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and topping it off
- rapid development of the oil resources of
Russia, the Caspian, and Central Asia
- multiplication of pipelines from the Caspian and the Gulf.
Source: “A Republic, Not an Empire,” p.381
, Oct 9, 1999
Explore ANWR; reconsider nuclear power & oil import fee
America needs an insurance policy [against the oil weapon, including]:- opening up the Alaska Natural Wildlife Refuge to exploratory drilling
- reconsideration of the use of nuclear power to generate electricity
- study of the potential of an oil import fee to stimulate conservation and new drilling, and to make clean coal and natural gas more competitive.
Source: “A Republic, Not an Empire,” p.381
, Oct 9, 1999
Opposes raising CAFE standards
Buchanan opposes CAFE standards of 45 mpg for new cars and 35 mpg for new light trucks by 2005.
Source: Sustainable Energy Coalition backgrounder #3
, Oct 4, 1999
Opposes Kyoto Treaty because it regulates US most
As President I will oppose international environmental accords like the Kyoto Treaty that would devastate American industry and obligate our country to onerous environmental regulations that do not apply to other nations.
Source: www.GoPatGo.org/ “Issues: Protecting the Environment”
, Jun 11, 1999
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