Topics in the News: Energy Independence
Nikki Haley on Energy & Oil
: Jul 30, 2023
There can be solar and wind, but you can't do it tomorrow
Let's talk about what we want to do if we want to focus on energy. What we don't want to do is go hat in hand to Saudi Arabia or get dirty oil from Iran or Venezuela. What we do want to do is look at what does transitioning look like. You can't do it
tomorrow, but what you can do is transition and that's where we say that let's do an all-of-the-above energy approach. Yes, there can be solar. Yes, there can be wind, but you can't do it tomorrow.
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Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2023 Presidential primary hopefuls
Tim Scott on Budget & Economy
: May 22, 2023
Rein in the left's out-of-control spending, cut taxes
- Made in America agenda that ramps up research and development, reclaims supply chains, and re-energizes our manufacturing base with Opportunity Zones 2.0.
- Unleash American energy and innovation by removing
burdensome red tape, cutting taxes, and expanding an all-of-the-above energy approach.
- Live within our means, by reining in the left's out-of-control spending, ending earmarks and political favors, and making tax cuts permanent.
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Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website VoteTimScott.com
Doug Burgum on Energy & Oil
: Jan 3, 2023
North Dakota takes an all-of-the-above approach
North Dakota continues to successfully engage an all-of-the-above approach that harnesses oil, gas, coal, hydroelectric, renewable fuels, wind and solar. Entrepreneur Harold Hamm led the charge to lift America's 40-yearold ban on exporting
U.S. crude oil in 2015. Selling more clean U.S. energy to our friends and allies, versus forcing them to buy dirty energy from our adversaries, is the single most powerful change the U.S. could make today to drive American strength up.
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Source: 2023 State of the State Address to the N.D. legislature
Doug Burgum on Energy & Oil
: Jan 23, 2018
On energy, all of the above
We have an approach in our state, which is all of the above. So we're supporting oil and gas. We're supporting coal. We're supporting wind. Oil and gas, obviously, most of that, a lot of that's going towards transportation fuels.
As the renewable continues to grow and grow, at a low variable cost, those dynamics put pressure on the economics between those two. We have to continue to sort that out as we go forward.
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Source: 2018 North Dakota State of the State address
Jill Stein on Energy & Oil
: Jan 12, 2016
All of the above policy puts fossil fuels above all
Despite much hot air about climate change, Democrats' "all of the above" energy policy has actually put fossil fuels above all. While Obama's policies increased renewables to a scant 5% of the US energy supply, this small portion has been overwhelmed by
Obama's massive expansion of fracking and oil and gas extraction, both offshore and on public lands. Even as Obama boasted about the toothless Paris agreement that would allow a catastrophic 3 degrees Celsius temperature rise,
Democrats--as well as Republicans--were trashing the climate by lifting the ban on oil exports (equivalent to building 135 new coal power plants), and expediting permits for fracking.
Without any help from the Republicans, Obama alone gave a secret executive thumbs up to the major new fracked gas Gulf Trace Pipeline.
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Source: Green Party response to 2016 State of the Union speech
Mike Pence on Energy & Oil
: Jan 13, 2015
All-of-the-above energy strategy instead of EPA over-reach
Because low-cost energy is vital to our economy, we need an all-of-the-above energy strategy, including energy efficiency.
But know this, Indiana is a pro-coal state, and we must continue to oppose the overreaching schemes of the EPA until we bring this war on coal to an end.
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Source: State of the State address to 2015 Indiana Legislature
Mike Pence on Social Security
: Apr 9, 2014
Cutting Social Security should be on the table
Pence spent 12 years in Congress as a leading fiscal conservative. During his tenure he backed efforts to reform Social Security. In 2010, when asked whether he'd support making cuts to Social Security, Pence told CNN, "I think everything has to be on
the table." When asked if he'd raise the retirement age, he said, "I'm an all-of-the-above guy. We need look at everything on the menu." At the time, he said any reforms should just affect Americans under the age of 40.
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Source: CNN.com on 2016 Veepstakes, "Pence on Social Security"
Mike Pence on Energy & Oil
: Jan 8, 2012
All-of-the-above American-made energy strategy
The American people deserve more access to American energy. High energy prices hurt everyone, especially those with low incomes, and weaken our overall economy. I support an "all of the above" energy strategy that reduces prices at the pump and
the cost of utilities in homes and businesses. It would increase the supply of American-made energy, improve conservation and efficiency, and promote new and expanding energy technologies.
An "all of the above" approach will solve our energy crisis by unlocking our nation's rich natural resources.Creating a national energy tax through cap and trade legislation will not lower energy costs or create a cleaner environment.
A true energy solution will allow the American people to utilize all of our domestic resources, while developing new technologies. Such a plan would lower energy costs and put the American people back to work.
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Source: House of Representatives website mikepence.house.gov
Donald Trump on Principles & Values
: Jan 2, 2012
Stoked Tea Party suspicions about Obama's legitimacy
The freewheeling anti-Obama paranoia expressed at the Tea Party rallies has been widely reported. Various articles have quoted Tea Party members saying that Obama is a secret Muslim, a foreigner, a Socialist, a Communist, a Nazi--or maybe
all of the above! Obama the un-American is the overarching theme. Stoked by demagogues like Donald Trump, the claim about President Obama's otherness and illegitimacy reached its apogee in "Birtherist" claims that Obama was not really born in the US.
In our interviews, the tone was of course more measured than in public rallies, but we heard variations of all the possible epithets for Obama. Obama is perceived by many Tea Partiers as a foreigner, an invader pretending to be an American, a
5th columnist. Obama's past as a community organizer is taken as evidence that he works on behalf of the undeserving poor and wishes to mobilize government resources on their behalf.
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Source: The Remaking of Republican Conservatism, p. 78-79
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