Rick Perry To Propose Energy Plan to Create 1.2 Million Jobs

[DaveSimmons]

Sadly, fear of nookylur power is bipartisan it's not just "libruls" stopping it.

That, and the oil company lobbyists offer bigger bribes for drill baby drilling.

 

[Craig234]

"Rick Perry To Propose Energy Plan to Create 1.2 Million Jobs"

 

[Moonbeam]

Oh,.. uhm,.. COMMUNIST!! YOU ARE A FILTHY COMMUNIST!!! OBAMA IS NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN! HE IS WEAK ON TERRORISM!!!!

Weak on terrorism, my ass. He's become a terrorist himself. He flies suicide drones into their tents. Can't imagine where he got such a crazy idea.

 

[Moonbeam]

Sadly, fear of nookylur power is bipartisan it's not just "libruls" stopping it.

That, and the oil company lobbyists offer bigger bribes for drill baby drilling.

Hardly sad. It's a rare expression of the will to live over the desire for death. It's an example of feminist motherhood putting the kibosh on pin head engineers with their tiny corpus callosum that prevent whole brain functionality.

 

[K1052]

How about Liberals stop letting us develop new energy sources. Can't build wind farms because it will hurt birds. Can't build nuclear because we'll all grow a third arm. Can't have solar because some stupid rat in the desert might be affected.

How about shutting the F up and let the energy companies do what they are supposed to do. Find sources of energy.
The GOP has again and again attempted to get us pointed down the path of energy independence, the Libs do nothing but shoot down any proposal and they are the ones keeping us stuck on the antiquated Coal, Gas, and Oil systems of energy production.

They claim to be so pro clean energy, but will never let it actually be implimented.

A lot of projects are derailed by NIMBYism, which isn't partisan.

I'm heavily in favor of nuclear power and anything else that lessens our reliance on fossil energy.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Shit, that's what the prison population should be doing.

Make them exert any effort for their room and board.

The horror.

Coddlers will never allow such to happen.

 

[Franz316]

Seems like any other short sited plan coming from a politician.

Instead of having their eyes on the horizon they keep them pointed at the ground.

We need to moving away from fossil fuels, not furthering our investment and dependence on them.

 

[ElFenix]

"Rick Perry To Propose Energy Plan to Create 1.2 Million Jobs"

solves energy, unemployment, and obesity all at once!

 

[Macamus Prime]

solves energy, unemployment, and obesity all at once!

If you make sure they are non-Eglish speakers, we've also taken care of the illegal immigration issue. They enter this country illegally, we lock them in that thar contrapshun and God's work is done.

Why must we white people be saddled with the task of solving all the problems of the world?

Lord give me strength.

 

[Modelworks]

Announce plans to bring fiber to every home in the nation in 5 years and mandate the lines to be carrier neutral. That would add jobs, increase multiple areas of quality of living and would be something that many people could get behind.

Unfortunately I just woke up and that was all a dream.



Or spend every dime we can get on space and Helium 3 energy for a power source. In the future we will be buying Helium 3 from China since they are the only ones putting in the money and work. Think of it. One shuttle payload of Helium 3 can power the USA for a year. Cost to build a He3 reactor is estimated at around 5-10 billion. We waste that much in paperwork.

 

[Jhhnn]

Last time I checked, Texas was ruled by fossil fuel interests, and her politicians reflect that. Perry will attempt to advance the interests of those who've advanced his own, shamelessly & without regret or reflection.

On the Right, the answer to energy problems is simply to obtain more so we can use more so that profits will be larger. And that always has to be accomplished by large scale corporate interests.

What it amounts to is that Conservatives don't believe in conservation, at all. They believe in ever increasing consumption.

And they're always going on about robbing our grandchildren wrt fiscal and monetary issues, even as they propose leaving nothing behind in terms of natural resources.

The whole notion that conservation & efficient use could be part of an honest energy plan are simply rejected out of hand. We don't want cars that get 40mpg, we want giant SUV's & pickups that get 15mpg, & we want lots of cheap gas so we can commute hours each way, spend more time & money driving to the new trendy mall on the other side of the metro area than we'll spend when we get there. We don't want energy efficient homes, we want 4000 sq ft edifices in the hinterlands where rooms we haven't even been in for weeks or months are kept at a perfect 72F in case we do. We don't want xeriscaped yards, we want lush expanses of bluegrass & thirsty shrubbery maintained by Mexican gardeners paid under the table.

Every Republican politician from Reagan forward has pandered to our irrational desires, and Perry is no different. Allegations of job creation are just a sideshow to that.

 

[hal2kilo]

On the Right, the answer to energy problems is simply to obtain more so we can use more so that profits will be larger. And that always has to be accomplished by large scale corporate interests.

What it amounts to is that Conservatives don't believe in conservation, at all. They believe in ever increasing consumption.

And they're always going on about robbing our grandchildren wrt fiscal and monetary issues, even as they propose leaving nothing behind in terms of natural resources.

The whole notion that conservation & efficient use could be part of an honest energy plan are simply rejected out of hand. We don't want cars that get 40mpg, we want giant SUV's & pickups that get 15mpg, & we want lots of cheap gas so we can commute hours each way, spend more time & money driving to the new trendy mall on the other side of the metro area than we'll spend when we get there. We don't want energy efficient homes, we want 4000 sq ft edifices in the hinterlands where rooms we haven't even been in for weeks or months are kept at a perfect 72F in case we do. We don't want xeriscaped yards, we want lush expanses of bluegrass & thirsty shrubbery maintained by Mexican gardeners paid under the table.

Every Republican politician from Reagan forward has pandered to our irrational desires, and Perry is no different. Allegations of job creation are just a sideshow to that.

This is the crux of the issue for me with "conservatives" and energy.

Thanks for your cogent thoughts.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

You know how free international trade lowered consumer prices and created jobs? That's how removing energy regulations is going to create more jobs too.

How exactly did it lower consumer prices? Does having free international somehow magically increase the amount of wealth created per capita in the U.S.? (You can't really consume more wealth than you produce, so if international trade has benefited us, in some sort of a way it has to have resulted in a net increase in the amount of wealth produced in the U.S.)

Or is the basis of the lower prices merely global labor arbitrage--hiring Chinese workers for fifty cents/hour without labor and environmental regulations while American workers get laid off?

If consumer prices decrease by 20% but American wages decrease by 30%, would it be better to have no decrease in prices or wages?

 

[Moonbeam]

Make them exert any effort for their room and board.

The horror.

Coddlers will never allow such to happen.

Bull shit. People who do not obey the law deserve only one thing and that is that we do what we have to to stop them. People become criminals because they are genetically incapable of empathy, not too common, or they were turned into monsters by vicious and unloving parents, and a vicious and unloving society. In short, most folk are criminals because they were brutally punished as children just for being alive. Now the idiots come along and want to punish them more so they can become even sicker yet, Then we let them out so that hopefully the folk they commit their criminal acts on are folk like you.

Prison is a place that should be there to prevent folk from harming other people and to try to help them undo the damage that was done to them as children. They need therapy and occupational rehabilitation, a place where they can learn to feel for the first time in their lives what it means to feel worth something. This isn't coddling, it is the application of intelligence and wisdom, the latter being extremely rare.