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Hey, bring it on, Granola Boy. The moratorium on offshore oil drilling “will be reinstated,” Inslee told CNSNews.com, but he did not specify whether he meant the executive branch moratorium or the one from the Interior Department. “One way or the other, it will be reinstated,” said Inslee. “One way or the other, by any [...]
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Fausta has been liveblogging the press conference with President Obama and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, best known to everyone but our own State Department as Lula. It makes for interesting reading, but here’s her takeaway line: Obama’s talking progressive policies, Lula is talking about free trade and business. You can see [...]
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In yesterday’s New York Times, P-E Obama said this: “There are no quick or easy fixes to this crisis, which has been many years in the making,” Mr. Obama said Saturday. “And it’s likely to get worse before it gets better. “But January 20th is our chance to begin anew, with a new direction, new [...]
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Barack Obama, July 14, 2008: If offshore drilling would provide short-term relief at the pump or a long-term strategy for energy independence, it would be worthy of our consideration, regardless of the risks. But most experts, even within the Bush Administration, concede it would do neither. It would merely prolong the failed energy policies we [...]
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Victor David Hanson muses and I have a bit of an answer. With the world’s largest reserves of coal, after creating the nuclear power industry ex nihilo, and with billions of oil still under our soil and waters, it makes no sense to produce less energy while blaming and taxing those who produce what we [...]
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