Romney Energy Plan: What Global Warming?

[Lakhota]

By Steve Holland

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug 23 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will lay out policies on Thursday aimed at achieving North American energy independence by 2020 by pursuing a sharp increase in production of oil and natural gas on federal lands and off the U.S. coast.

Romney is to unveil his plan at a truck and supply business in Hobbs, New Mexico, as he seeks to draw a sharp contrast between his energy policies and those of President Barack Obama and detail in part how he would rekindle job growth in the United States.

His emphasis on the economy amounts to an effort to return the campaign to the central issue Romney believes is most critical in the Nov. 6 election and the key to a victory for him.

The economic debate has to a certain extent been sidelined in recent days by controversial remarks about rape by a Senate Republican candidate in Missouri, Todd Akin, who Romney has denounced.

Romney's energy policies are heavily tilted toward increased production of carbon-based resources, oil, gas and coal, that environmentalists blame for global warming. He is outlining the policy two days after going over some of the details with executives from the oil industry who contributed to his campaign at fund-raising events in Texas.

More: Mitt Romney Energy Plan: More Oil & Natural Gas Production On Federal Lands

 

[Lakhota]

More carbon and fracking. Sad...

 

[Mr. H.]

You prefer imported oil?

Fracing has no k.

Sad idiot.

 

[SniperFire]

Drill baby. Drill.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

I thought you klooks changed it to climate change after that whole ICPP data massaage scandal?

Is it global warming again now, or did you not get the memo?

 

[Katzndogz]

That's why Romney has my vote!

 

[beretta304]

Energy

....and he just announced more details minutes ago.

 

[beretta304]

I thought you klooks changed it to climate change after that whole ICPP data massaage scandal?

Is it global warming again now, or did you not get the memo?

Yeah and illegal now = "undocumented".

Wouldn't want those here illegally to be insulted.

 

[Mr. H.]

Energy

....and he just announced more details minutes ago.

...before the first barrel of oil is pumped out of the ground, entire industries are hard at work creating the equipment and providing the services used in drilling, production, and the long chain of supporting industries that brings energy from inside the earth to the consumer.

AND

The ripple effects into the non-energy sectors of the economy are commensurately important. If instead of sending hundreds of billions of dollars overseas we can send them to our own energy-rich centers, the nation as a whole will experience the economic benefits that we currently see other countries enjoying at our expense.

 

[Avatar4321]

More carbon and fracking. Sad...

If you are tired of carbon dioxide in the air, stop exhaling.

 

[martybegan]

More carbon and fracking. Sad...

What you can do is tie a $1 or $2 fee on top of every barrel of domestic crude produced or everk 6,000 CF of natural gas, and use that to research renewable energy.

That way we exploit our own reasources, keep the money in the US, and fund future research on renewables.

 

[Mr. H.]

More carbon and fracking. Sad...

What you can do is tie a $1 or $2 fee on top of every barrel of domestic crude produced or everk 6,000 CF of natural gas, and use that to research renewable energy.

That way we exploit our own reasources, keep the money in the US, and fund future research on renewables.

Since most domestic oil and natural gas is produced by Independents (small business) this wouldn't be a good idea.

How about a buck or two dollars tax in every bushel of grain produced by farmers?

 

[FlexibleEnergy]

Theres no such thing as manmade global warming.scam by the commies and the left to destroy economic I.dependence and industry. Anyone who studies astronomy can put 2x2 together and realize the sun and the solar radiational impulses have a DIRECT EFFECT on the earths climate...doesnt take rocket science to figure this out.
huge heatwave in june/july due to several radiational storms,scientists know this,but the agenda defies the actual facts.short and simple a big pile of leftist shit.

 

[Mustang]

By Steve Holland

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug 23 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will lay out policies on Thursday aimed at achieving North American energy independence by 2020 by pursuing a sharp increase in production of oil and natural gas on federal lands and off the U.S. coast.

Romney is to unveil his plan at a truck and supply business in Hobbs, New Mexico, as he seeks to draw a sharp contrast between his energy policies and those of President Barack Obama and detail in part how he would rekindle job growth in the United States.

His emphasis on the economy amounts to an effort to return the campaign to the central issue Romney believes is most critical in the Nov. 6 election and the key to a victory for him.

The economic debate has to a certain extent been sidelined in recent days by controversial remarks about rape by a Senate Republican candidate in Missouri, Todd Akin, who Romney has denounced.

Romney's energy policies are heavily tilted toward increased production of carbon-based resources, oil, gas and coal, that environmentalists blame for global warming. He is outlining the policy two days after going over some of the details with executives from the oil industry who contributed to his campaign at fund-raising events in Texas.

More: Mitt Romney Energy Plan: More Oil & Natural Gas Production On Federal Lands

As long as they phase out coal, ASAP, I can live with more oil and gas production. But not tar sands, either.

 

[rightwinger]

Drill baby....drill

Some things never change

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Says the avowed marxist. You'll live the same no matter which energy source is used.

 

[rightwinger]

Theres no such thing as manmade global warming.scam by the commies and the left to destroy economic I.dependence and industry. Anyone who studies astronomy can put 2x2 together and realize the sun and the solar radiational impulses have a DIRECT EFFECT on the earths climate...doesnt take rocket science to figure this out.
huge heatwave in june/july due to several radiational storms,scientists know this,but the agenda defies the actual facts.short and simple a big pile of leftist shit.

Over 90% of scientists disagree with you

But who cares? Scientists are a bunch of elitists

 

[bigrebnc1775]

obama's Energy Plan::

 

[Chris]

Romney is a shill for the Koch brothers.

Obama has invested in clean energy research.

There are some amazing things being discovered which will change the world.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Romney is a shill for the Koch brothers.

Obama has invested in clean energy research.

There are some amazing things being discovered which will change the world.

To bad the money he invested was America's tax payers money and we lost.