Posted on 10/15/2011 9:36:36 AM PDT by tobyhill
Rick Perry unveiled an energy plan Friday that he said would lead to a job boom but would also strip federal regulations for clean air and usher in an open season for drilling on federal lands and American coastlines.
Speaking outside a steel plant in suburban Pennsylvania, Perry rolled out his plan, designed to put him into the discussion with rival Mitt Romney’s 150-page jobs plan and Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax policy.
“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,” Perry said.
His said his plan would create 1.2 million jobs and help end the nation’s reliance on foreign oil.
It would open up millions of acres in Alaska — including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — and western states to oil and gas drilling. In addition, the Gulf Coast, the southern Atlantic coast, and Alaskan seas would be open, and the 1,700-mile Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL pipeline would be approved.
He said that other than the wildlife refuge, most of the lands could be thrown open through executive action and without congressional consent.
The other aspect of the plan deals with suspending large swaths of the Clean Air and Endangered Species Acts, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and cutting its budget by 60 percent.
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Another way of putting it: one has only one chance to make a first impression, and Rick Perry has failed miserably to do so outside of Texas.
Did you trust the Bushes? If so, did they disappoint you?
Bush was great on foreign policy and the war...His domestic policy I didn’t like...he never vetoed a spending bill in 8 years. He let Ted Kennedy write the education bill, so I guess when it came to domestic stuff, he stunk....But as a man and human being, I think he is awesome, also awesome with our boys in the military....:O)
Are you from TX? If you are not, then you don’t know much about it. Just what you get from CBS.
He is the only one with the money and organization, that could beat Obama. The rest are not likely too.
Oh, yeah, George Soros backed radicals, who did develop the stimulus plan. We know how that turned out.
trash and smears as usual.
Governor Pay for Play. Well documented.
Think about this. if Cain and Perry had to bow out. Cain would endorse Romney. I can bet you big time Perry would not.
“Think about this. if Cain and Perry had to bow out. Cain would endorse Romney. I can bet you big time Perry would not.”
And he wouldn’t endorse Newt...why not?
Put those ideas into the “plus” column for Gov. Perry.
JoMa
The fed should release the lands to the states to sell to private citizens. A percentage of sales gets returned to feds. Alaska does this yearly. State land sales by sealed bid.
Ok, that is really what you should have said in the first place.
Better late than never I guess.
Altho he is speaking my language here color me unimpressed.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Thank you. That seems like a plan that works.
US citizens are what you are meaning I assume.
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