We need to sell more public resources (oil leases) for pennies on the dollar to our political friends, get rid of oil spill safety regs, and help oil companies make more money. There are no other energy sources, well, maybe nuclear...
Interestingly, the side effect of drilling is cheap natural gas which clobbers another sacred cow: coal. When your political campaign is being funded by gas and coal, which do you favor when they are in conflict?
The new DOE head Rick Perry wants to have the taxpayers subsidize noncompetitive coal plants under the guise of national security by requiring 90 day coal stockpiles at plants that have switched primarily to gas. That was shot down by another agency, but this is politics, expect this corporate welfare handout to a coal billionair to be resurrected in another guise.
Interestingly, the side effect of drilling is cheap natural gas which clobbers another sacred cow: coal. When your political campaign is being funded by gas and coal, which do you favor when they are in conflict?
The new DOE head Rick Perry wants to have the taxpayers subsidize noncompetitive coal plants under the guise of national security by requiring 90 day coal stockpiles at plants that have switched primarily to gas. That was shot down by another agency, but this is politics, expect this corporate welfare handout to a coal billionair to be resurrected in another guise.
