“We have the most asinine energy policy in our country imaginable,[“] the former Alaska governor [told Mark Levin], adding that the U.S. needs to tap into “the hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, and the untold billions of barrels of oil” available to it.
“Instead, we’re on a path now where we’re going to be even more reliant on foreign countries and dangerous dictators who can use energy as a weapon, holding it over our heads to get what they want out of our country.”
Palin went on to warn that the current energy policy has the U.S. on a dangerous path that will inflict “a world of hurt” on the nation:
“[U]nder the Obama administration, we’re getting further and further away from a sound energy policy.”
“It’s asinine, its nonsensical, and I think an energy policy in this country, unless we adopt one that makes sense and that aggressively develops our domestic resources that God has created for us, our country is going to be in a world of hurt in the not-too-distant future.”
My! I don’t think she put that in a way that will comfort moderates and independents. In fact, her choice of words — far too unpolished for my tastes — is almost assuredly going to move moderates and independents to support the closing down of coal plants and the “necessary” skyrocketing of energy costs.
Very unhelpful, that.
Mrs. Bachmann thinks to agree with Gov. Palin, at least so it seemed last night in Bachmann’s interview with the FNC panel, where she cited the energy industry drilling oil and gas as the most immediate possible source of job creation for the short-term, which, the short-term was all that made any difference as far as Dan Balz was concerned, more fool he.
Don’t worry she’s now so irrelevant and only interested in the money.
Bachmann’s interview, in three video segments.
Are you hoping she ends up in charge of energy in the next administration? That’s kinda what I’m thinking. of course, I’m also thinking about moving to the Brazilian jungle and hoping the natives let me stay.
“Our energy policy sucks ass,” happyfeet said to his tasty bowl of Frosted Flakes. “It’s like why do we have to get so much oil from royal Saudi perverts and also Canada and Mexico? Not when there’s like a thousand gallons of it in the GROUND right here in the good old US of A!”
“We should change that, pronto.”
The Gullahs made do pretty well out on the islands, and bonus, it’s not as far MissFix’t. Probably just as buggy though, or nearly anyhow.
Related:
“So the choice is not whether the extra 1.5% of CO2 from the Canadian oil sands is going to enter the atmosphere—that ship has sailed. Their whole “dirty oil” CO2 argument is meaningless, because whether the Keystone XL pipeline is built or not, the oil will be burnt.
The only choice is whether it is burnt in the US or in China … and anyone who thinks that the latter course will cause less real pollution, not CO2 but real unburnt hydrocarbon and black carbon pollution, anyone who thinks there will be less of those nasty things if the oil is burnt in China is definitely not paying attention.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/06/the-only-choice-is-where-it-gets-burned/#more-48745
I think it starts to make sense if you look at it as a patronage arrangement meets crony capitalism policy, instead of an energy policy.
I mean, we tell oil companies they can’t drill here, giving up not only our self sufficiency, but also government revenue, then we give Brazil billions so they can drill there and sell the oil to us.
Insane? Perhaps ultimately. But it makes sense to our ruling elite.
Not to mention Lee, the vast costs of misallocation of capital or wealth, as energy costs — energy being a primary input to every economy — skyrocket, feeding through to destroy the economy from within. It’s hideous. But there we go. Obama’s hideous.
But it makes
sense tomoney for our ruling elite.FTFY
I sincerely hope before I flee this orb of tears I get to watch the “ruling elite” hideously defrocked.
As far as Palins commentary, never fear, as a host of “Imbilcilic Intellectuals”, or “ImpInts” for short, hang on her every word and turn of phrase, applying the latest “Left-speak” Gordian twists and skews to both form and meaning, so as to hopefully obscure even the most minimal observations of the abject failures of this Administration and its Clown leader.
When this whacked out Progressive political trainwreck finally hits the wall its going to be spectacular, I’ll tell you what.
“Christ”-like superhero figure finally gets to lay his cross down having saved the world.
“The Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan . . . told POLITICO that now he can “get a life.””
Whose life this time? He’s gonna start running those ads again, isn’t he?
So Sully’s sole purpose in all of that was to stop Palin running for president in 2012?
When does he think the asteroid will strike, then?