Posted on 10/14/2011 9:47:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Governor Rick Perry’s plan is based on a simple premise: Make what Americans buy. Buy what Americans make. And sell it to the world.
Sections: [ Policy Recommendations with each section]
Energizing American Jobs and Security
Our Conservative Philosophy
ENERGIZING AMERICA
The Failed Current Approach
BARACK OBAMA’S INCOHERENT ENERGY POLICY
Our Approach
AN ALL-AMERICAN ENERGY POLICY
American Energy, American Jobs
DEVELOPING AMERICA’S DOMESTIC RESOURCES IN THE GULF
American Energy, American Jobs
PENNSYLVANIA’S MARCELLUS SHALE
Maintaining Reliable and Affordable Energy
POWERING AMERICA’S ENGINES OF COMMERCE
Renewable Energy
THE VIRGINIA CASE STUDY
Maintaining Reliable and Affordable Energy
EPA REFORM
Energizing America: Jobs and Security
A NEW PRESIDENT, A RENEWED AMERICA
I guess there is a reason to hold back on this until October and wait until after 3 (or 4?) failed debates
And that reason is ____?
Who are Perry’s advisers? How much are they being paid? Who do they really work for?
Sounds like a plan.
Drill baby, drill isn't something new. Perry is putting a new spin on an issue that was introduced in the first 3 debates by all the candidates.
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SPEECH EXCERPT:
....”What I am proposing today is the first part of an economic growth package that will rebuild the engine of American prosperity.
The plan I present this morning, Energizing American Jobs and Security, will kick-start economic growth and create 1.2 million jobs.
It can be implemented quicker and free of Washington gridlock because it doesn’t require congressional action. Through a series of executive orders, and other executive actions, we will begin the process of creating jobs soon after the inauguration of a new president.
There is, of course, an important role for Congress to play. And in a matter of days I will offer to the American people a broader package of economic reforms that I will take to Congress when I am elected President. My complete economic growth package will tackle tax reform, entitlement reform and real spending reductions in order to address our growing debt crisis.
But today I offer a plan that will create more than a million good, American jobs across every sector of the economy and enhance our national security, and the best news is it can be set in motion in my first 100 days.
My plan is based on this simple premise: Make what Americans buy, buy what Americans make, and sell it to the world.
We are standing atop the next American economic boom…energy.
The quickest way to give our economy a shot in the arm is to deploy American ingenuity to tap American energy. But we can only do that if environmental bureaucrats are told to stand down.”....
More: ...........”With a series of executive orders and other executive actions, I will authorize the following:
I will work to open up Alaska’s abundant resources to oil and gas exploration, including the ANWR Coastal Plain and the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska. In this one instance, we will need congressional authorization. But it is worth it when you consider we will create 120,000 jobs.
We will initiate off-shore exploration in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas off the northern and western coasts of Alaska. This will create 55,000 jobs.
We will resume pre-Obama levels of exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and create another 230,000 jobs.
I will support the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to take Canadian Crude to coastal refineries, which would create 20,000 direct jobs for American workers.
We will begin tapping the energy potential of the American West, opening up federal and private lands for exploration in states like Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Colorado and Utah. Collectively, our western states have the potential to produce 1.3 million barrels of oil per day by 2020 and contain 87 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
They can produce more energy than what we import from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Venezuela and Russia combined!
And right here in Pennsylvania, and across the state line in West Virginia and Ohio, we will tap the full potential of the Marcellus Shale and create another 250, 000 jobs by getting the EPA out of the way. While Marcellus shale is today’s opportunity, the deeper Utica shale formations offer equally vast potential with more jobs over the horizon for Pennsylvania and its neighbors.”.....
SNIP -— [excerpt]: .............It is equally important that we take a second step: eliminate activist regulations already on the books and under consideration by the Obama Administration.
While President Obama has been very public about his newest jobs proposal, behind the scenes the permanent bureaucracy is working to grind the economy to a halt in pursuit of activist regulations. A raft of new rules and foot-dragging by the EPA and Interior Department are killing job creation.
Examples include the Utility Maximum Available Control Technology rule, the Boiler MACT rule, the Cross State Air Pollution Rule, the proposed Coal Combustion Residuals regulation and Section 316 (b) of the Clean Water Act.
These new rules alone could destroy up to 2.4 million American jobs by 2020 and add $127 billion in costs to electric providers and consumers. Under my plan, each of these rules would be subject to an immediate review with a cost-benefit analysis to determine the impact on American employers and the environment.
If we face the facts, we know that none of these rules were needed to reduce emissions of the six principal pollutants by 50 percent since 1980. And they are not needed now, especially as our economy hangs in a fragile balance between recovery and recession.
I will take another step important to economic growth: I will stop the EPA’s draconian measures related to the regulation of greenhouse gases.
When you consider that any carbon reduction will be offset by the increase of carbon emissions by developing nations like China and India, the EPA would tie our economy in knots and advantage our global competitors while realizing no global environmental benefits in the process.
The third part of my plan is to reform the bureaucracy, in particular the EPA, so that it focuses on regional and cross-state issues, providing scientific research, as well as environmental analysis and cost-comparison studies to support state environmental organizations. We will return greater regulatory authority to the states to manage air and water quality rather than imposing one-size-fits-all federal rules.
I reject the notion that Washington is more committed to environmental stewardship than state and local officials who must live with the consequences of their own environmental policies.
The fourth component of my plan is to level the competitive playing field among all energy producers.”.................
Great stuff. Good to see Perry rolling this out.
Energy is the problem. Energy is a cruel tax on lower incomes.If you are spending 20.00 dollars more per fillup if you fillup 3 times a week. In 2008 before tarp gas prices went up. Gas prices go down the economy starts moving period. Energy effects everything in your life. Name one product or service that doesn’t require energy. The Democrats want high energy prices to turn to alternative energy.Republicans should hit them hard on energy. You can’t have food,clothes,factories etc without energy. Obama speaks about the rich all the time they can afford that second plane ticket to grandma’s but lower income folks hit by increasing prices due to energy you know the story.
Right on Perry !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you.
Mark Davis on WBAP was talking about Perry on the tv shows. He played a couple soundbites, then said, there’s my guy, there’s the Rick Perry I know, shame THAT guy was not in the debates. Said he did not know who it was that was supposed to be Perry, in the debates, or where was the real Perry, but he recognized him on the tv shows.
Mark was out of his mind over Anita’s soundbites, and I get his point and agree with much of his commentary; however, I cut her a little slack bc she’s his wife and she is rightly very much pro-her husband. I think she spoke her feelings as his wife, and that is problematic in this case, for what she said is her subjective impression as a wife. It certainly can’t be called political analysis.
But it was not Perry’s point today, his point today was his energy economy jobs rollout, and he stopped to defend her comments, as he would defend his wife, not a political operative. And that was not the best foot forward today.
Rick Perry is dead on right about our energy resources being the key to revitalizing and bringing America back. God has truly blessed this nation with its bountiful resources, and we as a political nation have been totally messing up with the riches the Lord gave us.
Well they screwed up bigtime in this campaign didn’t they?
Economic plan comes out 3 days after the economic debate?
C’mon. If I did something like that in my job I would be fired.
And deservedly so.
This is a great plan. Lots of substance...showing how fast Perry intends to put Americans back to work. What is nice is Perry’s 11 years experience as Governor...he has what is needed for this country NOW. President is not an entry level job. You don’t walk in the Oval Office wondering how this all works.
What about this plan couldn’t have been ready when Perry announced?
He also said he could implement some of it through executive orders, well I not going to trade a socialist dictator for a conservative one!
Isn’t that part of what we’re against, authoritarian presidential power, or is it OK if our side does it just not there side?
This wasn't just slapped together.
How lame. You're running on fumes.
This wasn’t even covered. Do you know if the video has been released yet?
(Palin. In your heart you know she’s right.)
But apparently not in yours........
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