Breaking the Deadlock on National Energy Policy

Here's a link to a piece from the Wall Street Journal's John Fund outside the subscriber wall that's full of plenty of straight talk:

After House leaders were forced to remove natural gas drilling provisions from the budget, Jack Gerard of the American Chemistry Council said he was "flabbergasted that some in Congress continue to live in a fantasy world, in which the government encourages use of clean-burning natural gas while cutting off supply, and then they wonder why prices go through the roof." Natural gas prices recently spiked at $14 per million BTUs, the highest in the world and the equivalent of $7 a gallon gasoline.

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Given the parochial interests that are retarding a sensible energy policy, national leadership is necessary to avoid continued gridlock. President Bush has been tarred as a tool of oil companies ever since his days working in a Texas oil patch, but the American people also intuitively feel that something is out of whack with energy. They are willing to listen to straight, direct talk.

And a significant portion of that "straight, direct talk" has to do with the expansion of nuclear energy. Be sure to read it all right now.

UPDATE Glenn Reynolds notes the Fund piece, and promises more commentary later on.

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