"Addicted to oil" was a pure BS appeal to centrists and Dems. And a bad policy based on bad principles - namely spending federal revenues on what is essentially a private business/free market matter.
If we want to lessen our dependence on foreign oil let's just simply drill for more here - we got PLENTY of proven reserves right off the coasts of California and Florida and in Alaska - FOR STARTERS! And then let's make sure there are no state or federal regulations preventing the construction of some more coal-oil conversion plants and mine for more coal RIGHT HERE. Four USA states - Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Idaho and Wyoming - have more energy (in convertible coal) than all of Arabia and the Persian Gulf combined!
IOW: All we really need to do is extract the energy got!
Bush's appeal to invest in new energy technology (and his promise of a big Federal boondoggle to support it) is just like his Harriet Miers nomination: A stupid play for consensus with the Democrats when what he should be doing is sticking to his guns - and his core beliefs and his base.
Alito was a BETTER pick than Miers. It made the people who elected him HAPPY.
And on the energy issue, Bush should have stuck to his guns - and his principles (and his base's issues and values), and just told Congress to OPEN ANWR - and OPEN the coast off California and OPEN the coast off of Florida.
Bush won't gain in the polls by appealing to the Dem/Left. The Teddy Jo Kennedy/Genghis Kerry Pelosi/Dean/Reid/Michael Moore/Cindy Sheehan crowd will NEVER give him credit for anything. He shouldn't angle for it. It's DUMB.
The WH advisors have got encourage BUSH TO BE BUSH! That's who we voted for. Not some guy pandering to the Dems and the MSM.
Others agree: POWERLINE and LIBERTY CORNER and THE AMERICAN THINKER.
If we want to lessen our dependence on foreign oil let's just simply drill for more here - we got PLENTY of proven reserves right off the coasts of California and Florida and in Alaska - FOR STARTERS! And then let's make sure there are no state or federal regulations preventing the construction of some more coal-oil conversion plants and mine for more coal RIGHT HERE. Four USA states - Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Idaho and Wyoming - have more energy (in convertible coal) than all of Arabia and the Persian Gulf combined!
IOW: All we really need to do is extract the energy got!
Bush's appeal to invest in new energy technology (and his promise of a big Federal boondoggle to support it) is just like his Harriet Miers nomination: A stupid play for consensus with the Democrats when what he should be doing is sticking to his guns - and his core beliefs and his base.
Alito was a BETTER pick than Miers. It made the people who elected him HAPPY.
And on the energy issue, Bush should have stuck to his guns - and his principles (and his base's issues and values), and just told Congress to OPEN ANWR - and OPEN the coast off California and OPEN the coast off of Florida.
Bush won't gain in the polls by appealing to the Dem/Left. The Teddy Jo Kennedy/Genghis Kerry Pelosi/Dean/Reid/Michael Moore/Cindy Sheehan crowd will NEVER give him credit for anything. He shouldn't angle for it. It's DUMB.
The WH advisors have got encourage BUSH TO BE BUSH! That's who we voted for. Not some guy pandering to the Dems and the MSM.
Others agree: POWERLINE and LIBERTY CORNER and THE AMERICAN THINKER.
Did you know that your font choice makes your blog hard to read?
ReplyDeletePolitics is dull enough without getting out a magnifying glass to read about it.
no offence
Reliapundit,
ReplyDeleteYour font is very easy to read. Barbara must have something wrong with her computer. And, I would think twice before I read a computer screen with a magnifying glass. That doesn't sound very good for the eyes.
Anyway, you're right. Bush sounded like a Democrat in the SOTU last night. I kept thinking, how can these guys hate him. He's one of them.
Being that I am, basically, a Democrat myself (one who hates the current Democratic Party), I tend to hear the stuff Bush said last night and think it sounds pretty ok, you know?
I agree, though, about the Oil plan. This is a dumb plan. We don't have time to develop new forms of energy, and yes, that is business' job anyway.
We must start drilling in Alaska and all the other places you mentioned. And, we must build refineries.
It is amazing to me that the Democrats, who are always complaining about our sick relationship with the Middle East, are the same people who stop the building of refineries, and stop us from drilling in the Alaskan wastelands.
That they do sabotage all drilling and refinery projects tells us that either one of two things is true,
1) they are stupid and confused, thinking we can pull energy out of a hat
or
2) they are anti-Capitalist, and wish to see the United States crumble.
It's probably a bit of both.
thanks for deending my font.
ReplyDeleteand for all your other asture comments. here and at your other blogs.
How is funding research bad policy? Businesses only fund research when there is a high probability of short-term profitability. Anything that will take more than 5 years has to be funded by the government because businesses aren't generally willing to wait that long for profits.
ReplyDeleteYou are also contradicting yourself. First you say that the addicted to oil phrase was pure BS, then you say we should use coal instead of oil.
Do you think it would be good policy to do the opposite of what he said? Do you actually think it would be a good idea for the government to not fund alternative energy research at all? Do you think it would be good policy to just drill for more oil and mine for more coal?
Bush sounded very weak in the SOTU. A lot of what he said seemed to be just defending his past actions. Most of the rest of it was proposals to spend more money, which supposedly isn't a Republican thing to do (although the data proves otherwise).
James
james;
ReplyDeletethe technology for coal ocnversion EXISTS as does the captial to invest in it.
the govt need not mess with it.
private enterprise ALWAYS does a better job than the govt.
good idea Kyle!
ReplyDeleteI think they are planning to build 5 to 10 heat only/ nonelectric "outdoor" plants in Iran, courtesy of the USAF