To Save America, by Newt Gingrich: on Energy & Oil
Barack Obama:
OpEd: Fast-tracking green energy projects took two years
President Obama needed emergency stimulus money so fast that no one in Congress had time to read the $787 billion stimulus bill. Then that legislation met the federal bureaucracy.
Consider the example of "fast track" green energy projects which, despite their name, still have to go through a multi-layered environmental impact and public review process. According to the website of the
Bureau of Land Management (which handles green energy projects for the
Department of the Interior), these projects could "potentially" be cleared for approval to receive stimulus funds by December 2010, almost two years after the stimulus was passed.
Source: To Save America, by Newt Gingrich, p. 11-12
May 17, 2010
Barack Obama:
New coal plants ok if they pay for greenhouse gas emission
Obama's most honest comments have been those when he went "off message." In one interview he said, "If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for
all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted." Obama's normal campaign rhetoric did not promise to bankrupt our own coal industry. While he promised a new dawn of abundant energy, he actually planned to declare war on the coal industry.
Source: To Save America, by Newt Gingrich, p. 63
May 17, 2010
Henry Waxman:
Moratorium on all proposed coal plants
Although coal provides half of our electricity and is a big reason why so many Americans have reliable and affordable power, it is vilified by radical environmentalists. However, shutting down coal plants, as they often advocate, would not solve any
substantial environmental problems, but it would literally turn off the lights on millions of Americans and drive millions of jobs abroad.Nevertheless, the crusade against coal continues. Consider this examples: In 2008, Democratic congressman Henry
Waxman, now chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, endorsed a moratorium on all proposed coal plants.
The Environmental Protection Agency recently cancelled a permit it had issues for the Spruce coal mine in West Virginia, despite
previous positive assessments by the state, the Army Corps of Engineers, and even the EPA itself.
Rather than attacking the coal industry, a more sensible approach would encourage coal operations through innovative technologies including carbon sequest
Source: To Save America, by Newt Gingrich, p.251-252
May 17, 2010
Newt Gingrich:
Doomsday climate theory pushes massive wealth transfer
A global, left-wing environmental movement organized around a doomsday theory of climate change is pushing for a massive wealth transfer for the West to developing nations, and an enormous increase in bureaucratic control but governments.
Meanwhile, UN-designated experts and an alliance of global bureaucrats are lobbying for treaties to enforce international climate change regulations within a system of global taxation.
This entire "solution" is a kind of class warfare applied to nation states.With our historical emphasis on free enterprise and national sovereignty, Americans have resisted these extreme measures.
But we believe genuine environmental problems, many of them ignored due to the global warming obsessions, cannot be resolved without U.S. leadership.
Source: To Save America, by Newt Gingrich, p.235-236
May 17, 2010
Ronald Reagan:
1981: Eliminated price controls on oil & natural gas
Reagan's first executive order eliminated price controls on oil and natural gas. Production soared, and the price of oil declined by more than 50 percent. This was a remarkable contrast to President
Carter's gasoline rationing, which limited us to buying gasoline every other day depending on the last number of our license plate. From scarcity of gasoline to abundance in six months--this was one of Reagan's first evident accomplishments.
Source: To Save America, by Newt Gingrich, p.159
May 17, 2010
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