tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post4131258765456191287..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: John McCain’s Energy SpeechUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-32818559921123489062008-06-19T06:22:00.000-04:002008-06-19T06:22:00.000-04:00Mark Flanagan, your pro-Dem, anti-Repub bias is qu...Mark Flanagan, your pro-Dem, anti-Repub bias is quite evident. Is Nancy Pelosi's claim true that oil companies are sitting on 68 million acres of federal land rich in oil and NOT exploiting that oil? And why always denigrate Fox News, the ONLY alternative to the Dem trash we see and hear everyday on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, etc.? Now read what the first Anon said. It's the DEM congress that has staked out this zero sum game. True, more Dems are coming around to recognizing that we must use nuke power, but as a whole, they are full of the foolishness of the socialist redistribution of wealth: let's have a windfall tax on the oil companies - they'll never raise the price to the consumer to pay for the tax! What idiocy, from the mouths of Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi and all their like. But this is your blog, Mark - ingratiate yourself all you want with the Dems. I just can't lower my principles that much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-31328584270326777172008-06-18T15:28:00.000-04:002008-06-18T15:28:00.000-04:00Even if a drilling expansion has no chance with co...Even if a drilling expansion has no chance with congress, it helps their cause for the GOP to force them to overtly defend what amounts to a "no solutions" position on energy. Congress has staked out a pain-free position that's an easy sell with voters, namely, that efficiency measures and renewable energy sources will deliver all the energy voters need at reasonable cost, therefore there's no need to build nuclear plants or drill for more oil and gas. For good measure they'll play a zero-sum game of redistributing the shrinking pie through tax changes, and of course blame any shortfalls or high prices on industry even as their hamstrung policy crashes. OK, so I'm cynical again today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com