Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:16:28 PM
Harry Reid declared surrender
for our economy last night. If anyone has any doubts about the
Democratic direction on energy policy, this should dispel them for all
time
This isn’t some fringe character, some crazy uncle that one has in
the attic. This is one of the Democratic Party’s leadership explaining
why he and his party will never allow for extensive increases in
domestic supply for coal and oil, the two leading sources of energy in
the US, along with natural gas. “Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick.
It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country, it’s ruining our world.
We’ve got to stop using fossil fuel.”
That would be great, except that no other mass-market solutions
exist. Even nuclear power would take several years to implement, and
Reid opposes nuclear. He wants wind and solar, even though neither have
mass-production capabilities and we still haven’t solved the storage
problem for alternative-sourced electricity. He thinks that we’d be
better off without energy at all, rather than “making us sick” by
producing coal and oil to meet current demands.