...on a long trip to promote her book:
"Today, she’ll be in Boston MA. Tomorrow, she travels to Philadelphia. On Wednesday, she’ll be in Miami and the next day she’ll be in Michigan."
That's going to use up a heck of a lot of jet fuel, and leave a big carbon footprint.
And remember, this is the woman who, as House Speaker, won't even allow a vote on offshore oil drilling. House Republicans are right to keep pounding on this issue...
Showing posts with label Nancy Pelosi; energy; offshore drilling; polls; liberalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nancy Pelosi; energy; offshore drilling; polls; liberalism. Show all posts
Monday, August 4, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
The case for offshore oil drilling
We've talked about this a lot here--about what principles conservatives should espouse on energy, about increasing fuel production, about making fun of Nancy Pelosi for opposing conservative policies. Today, Charles Krauthammer shows that, furthermore, a case can be made for offshore drilling BOTH on the grounds that it will increase fuel production, AND on environmental grounds:
"Consider: 25 years ago, nearly 60 percent of U.S. petroleum was produced domestically. Today it's 25 percent. From its peak in 1970, U.S. production has declined a staggering 47 percent. The world consumes 86 million barrels a day; the United States, roughly 20 million. We need the stuff to run our cars and planes and economy....The United States has the highest technology to ensure the safest drilling. Today, directional drilling -- essentially drilling down, then sideways -- allows access to oil that in 1970 would have required a surface footprint more than three times as large. Additionally, the U.S. has one of the most extensive and least corrupt regulatory systems on the planet. Does Pelosi imagine that with so much of America declared off-limits, the planet is less injured as drilling shifts to Kazakhstan and Venezuela and Equatorial Guinea? That Russia will be more environmentally scrupulous than we in drilling in its Arctic? The net environmental effect of Pelosi's no-drilling willfulness is negative. Outsourcing U.S. oil production does nothing to lessen worldwide environmental despoliation. It simply exports it to more corrupt, less efficient, more unstable parts of the world -- thereby increasing net planetary damage."
Read the whole thing.
"Consider: 25 years ago, nearly 60 percent of U.S. petroleum was produced domestically. Today it's 25 percent. From its peak in 1970, U.S. production has declined a staggering 47 percent. The world consumes 86 million barrels a day; the United States, roughly 20 million. We need the stuff to run our cars and planes and economy....The United States has the highest technology to ensure the safest drilling. Today, directional drilling -- essentially drilling down, then sideways -- allows access to oil that in 1970 would have required a surface footprint more than three times as large. Additionally, the U.S. has one of the most extensive and least corrupt regulatory systems on the planet. Does Pelosi imagine that with so much of America declared off-limits, the planet is less injured as drilling shifts to Kazakhstan and Venezuela and Equatorial Guinea? That Russia will be more environmentally scrupulous than we in drilling in its Arctic? The net environmental effect of Pelosi's no-drilling willfulness is negative. Outsourcing U.S. oil production does nothing to lessen worldwide environmental despoliation. It simply exports it to more corrupt, less efficient, more unstable parts of the world -- thereby increasing net planetary damage."
Read the whole thing.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Nancy Pelosi, messiah
What can one say about the image of Speaker Nancy that emerges from this Politico interview?
Save someone who now possesses an unbelievably inflated view of herself, one who doesn't understand ordinary consumers and their energy needs, this nation's energy needs as a whole; one who is ignorant of the safety with which offshore drilling can be conducted these days (this is no longer 1969 in Santa Barbera, Madam Speaker)...
Sigh. Read this quote for yourself:
"With fewer than 20 legislative days before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1, the entire appropriations process has largely ground to a halt because of the ham-handed fighting that followed Republican attempts to lift the moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration. And after promising fairness and open debate, Pelosi has resorted to hard-nosed parliamentary devices that effectively bar any chance for Republicans to offer policy alternatives. “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet,” she says impatiently when questioned. “I will not have this debate trivialized by their excuse for their failed policy.”
"Failed"? How can we know it's failed when you won't even allow it to come up for a vote?
"Save the planet"? You can't even save Congress, in which your party is a majority, from one of the lowest approval ratings ever recorded for that legislative body. You're going to get mocked, "Ms" Pelosi, and you deserve every bit of it that you're going to get.
Save someone who now possesses an unbelievably inflated view of herself, one who doesn't understand ordinary consumers and their energy needs, this nation's energy needs as a whole; one who is ignorant of the safety with which offshore drilling can be conducted these days (this is no longer 1969 in Santa Barbera, Madam Speaker)...
Sigh. Read this quote for yourself:
"With fewer than 20 legislative days before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1, the entire appropriations process has largely ground to a halt because of the ham-handed fighting that followed Republican attempts to lift the moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration. And after promising fairness and open debate, Pelosi has resorted to hard-nosed parliamentary devices that effectively bar any chance for Republicans to offer policy alternatives. “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet,” she says impatiently when questioned. “I will not have this debate trivialized by their excuse for their failed policy.”
"Failed"? How can we know it's failed when you won't even allow it to come up for a vote?
"Save the planet"? You can't even save Congress, in which your party is a majority, from one of the lowest approval ratings ever recorded for that legislative body. You're going to get mocked, "Ms" Pelosi, and you deserve every bit of it that you're going to get.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Speaking of defying public opinion...
...just think of how often our liberal, Democrat friends have raged against President Bush and conservatives for their support of the war in Iraq. Outrageous!, they cry. Why, just look at the polls! A majority of Americans oppose this war!! How dare you all defy public opinion this way!!!
Ah, but look now. Polls show that up to 73% of Americans SUPPORT lifting the ban on offshore drilling off the American coast, in order to boost oil supplies. And guess who stands in the way of a vote in Congress on a bill that would remove that ban? Why, Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi.
Suddenly polls and public opinion aren't so important to Pelosi and co.
Which leads one to think that all the blather about listening to the people, etc etc etc isn't real principle--but rather is just demagogy, to be hauled out only when useful.
Ah, but look now. Polls show that up to 73% of Americans SUPPORT lifting the ban on offshore drilling off the American coast, in order to boost oil supplies. And guess who stands in the way of a vote in Congress on a bill that would remove that ban? Why, Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi.
Suddenly polls and public opinion aren't so important to Pelosi and co.
Which leads one to think that all the blather about listening to the people, etc etc etc isn't real principle--but rather is just demagogy, to be hauled out only when useful.
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