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jschmidt
I agree that Repubs use of the offshore issue is purely political and not strategic except in terms of electioneering.
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Really? And what does avoiding a vote on an issue the overwhelming majority of the American people support represent?
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jschmidt
However how can you say that a solution ten years from now is a better solution to the problems of today? That seems equally disingenuous. If there is a real crisis then it's a perfectly appropriate use of the bloated SPR.
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First of all, there is no "crisis" or "emergency" despite what liberals say in order to justify big government intrusions into the market and our freedoms. What we DO have is a medium- to long-term strategic issue, both with regard to energy prices and their effect on the economy, as well as our security interests in being overly reliant on foreign sources of energy.
There are no short-term solutions to these issues, and many of the what you call "bandaids" actually exacerbate the problem in the longer-term (such as tapping the SPR)
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Everything about the demand for increased offshore drilling smacks of profiteering rather than patriotism. But Obama has it right. We'll swallow your bad idea if it helps us get to an energy policy that truly encourages renewables. Your move...
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Hmmm, we have vast quatities of something we need both for our economic and security interests sitting within our sovereign territory, and it is profiteering to suggest that more of that hard earned money of the American people go to domestic businesses than to foreigners? Hell, "Buy American" and "no more outsourcing our jobs" used to be the rallying cry of the democratic party.
The optimal long-term solution would be to steadily raise the Federal Gas tax, and use EVERY penny of the increased revenue to pay for across the board income tax rate reductions.
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