"The point is that should we start now on solar, wind, ANWR, coastal and shelf drilling, tar sands, shale, coal, nuclear, so that very soon each year, each new asset will kick in and soon we won’t have a nearly trillion dollar foreign energy bill. At some point do we have any national pride–giving away $140 a barrel to those who hate us and who pump it at $5 a barrel and who did not find or develop it?"
His other point about demanding other people drill while leftists demand we don’t is dead on.
Talk about the elites demanding people take care of them.
“...solar, wind, ANWR, coastal and shelf drilling, tar sands, shale, coal, nuclear, so that very soon each year, each new asset will kick in and soon we won’t have a nearly trillion dollar foreign energy bill”
I don’t get it, how a reasonable person can be opposed to this? Everything can and should be done in responsible, “we are custodians of our environment” manner. But its got to be done.
Somehow its becoming a partisan issue. Republicans received a gift from Dems opposing this common sense approach. Yet, it won’t surprise me if they’ll fail to use it.
From all the challenges we have, this one is very much solvable. We’ve got to be really dumb as a nation not to be able to do it in 10 - 20 years.