Our Tanks Are On Full

So, Mr. Gingrich, you actually believe your own propaganda. *Our* policies* cause outfits such as OPEC to gouge us at every opportunity? How about our greatly under-pricing of fuel -- look at what the Europeans pay, for instance.

I imagine if the gods themselves were to express concern about the future of vehicule fuel in particular and energy in general you'd find some reason to oppose them.

Maybe Rush can help you develop talking points for the day that might happen! :-)

Snoooooooreeeee....

Lets see Newt had the same old same old "let use the fossil fuels we have in the United States" line. He gives the tiniest tip of his hat to doing it in an "environmental responsible" way but doesn't give any specifics on how to do that. He neglects to inform us that most of the home grown energy he wants to use has not been used because it CANNOT be done in an environmentally and cost-effective way.

Then he goes on to the usual republican suspect of lets give tax breaks to energy companies (who pay virtually no taxes anyway and make record profits quarter after quarter).

This article is the epitome of the republican party right now. No new ideas, blame those in charge and be as vague as possible about their supposed solutions so that we don't see them for what they are, a bunch of talk.

Get it through your head people. You CANNOT harvest fossil fuels in an environmentally friendly way. I wouldn't mind if the republicans would just come out and say "Lets use fossil fuels and screw the planet", but this myth that its economically feasible to use polluting substances in a non-polluting way is ridiculous.

We need to look at the Bush policy before one can look at the present or future. Newt is great at ideas. He needs to join The President and seek a plan to address energy and a range of issues. America needs teamwork and serious debate on actionable ideas.

Why are we still listening to the man who was having an affair while he was leading the attacks on Clinton because of the President's affair with Monica and didn't he pester one wife for a divorce while she was in the hosptial being treated for cancer?

Shale oil has not been developed substantially because it is only cost effective if (1) oil prices are above $65/bbl and (2) the developer is allowed to produce as much carbon dioxide free as they want. So unless energy prices rise, foreign oil will be both cheaper and less environmentally destructive than shale oil.

The only rational solution is to set firm national policies that rely on both nuclear and renewable energy supplies. Such a policy would both protect us from the obvious environmental damage of our current policies and the political and military stupidity of funding countries that are fundamentally opposed to our principles.

But don't insult our intelligence and pretend that this will lower the direct costs of power in the short-term. But it may save us greatly in the longer view, and more accurately reflect the real costs of energy..

Typical Republican B.S. Profit with out conscience. Strip mine the oil shale in the Rockies. Pollute pristine beaches on the coasts. Americans would be much more willing to alow these ideas to proceed if historically we had not been shown the damage done to the land. Artificial Crisis, give me a break! WE need new refineries but the oil companies want unregulated use of the environment which as they have proven in the past they will trash and leave for the government (taxpayers)to clean up. As usual all style and no substance. Newt need to go away as he did a few years ago...in disgrace!

Mr. Gringrich. How's tea?

Down with Gingrich. He is an idiot.

Im so sick of everyone just trying to make themselves and their party look good. It's time all you ass#$&@# in power stopped being so selfish about your own self image. If Obama fails, which im sure he wont, we all fail. Get over yourselves and offer some constructive critisism. All you people in power that are bickering about whatever it is your bieckering about, are just making yourselves look bad. History will look back at you and say "wow. What a bunch of selfish, greddy babies."

didnt gingrich leave office years ago under some sort of scandel? I know rush is a drug addict-but I can't remember what ginrich did. I think it was a sex scandal

Can we all agree that the only real, long-term solution is to get away from the use of fossil fuels? Not only for ecological reasons, but geo-political: if we removed are absolute dependence on oil, we would not be dependent on these often unsavory and undemocratic oil kingdoms. How can that be bad? It's time to progress, fuel cell technology is not science fiction, it is real and in use. Unfortunately, so many established and wealthy oil companies (you know, the one's posting all these recording breaking profits amid the recession) would be forced to fundamentally and drastically alter their business models, possibly diminishing the profits they are currently enjoying (extorting) They will fight it tooth and nail. Why couldn't they embrace the future and try to be in the forefront and thereby well positioned? What if the horse and buggy makers had a super-financed lobby when the automobile appeared....we would still be saying "giddy-up"

That's right Newty old boy. Delusion by default.
Let's just polute the air we breath, the land where food is grown, our oceans, and the rivers, where we get clean drinking water? Same republican crap for the past 40 years. Are you into your 3rd or 4th wife now, Mr. bigoted, racist Christian!

"In addition, we should allow companies to write off 100 percent of their expenses in the first year if their refineries considerably expand America's oil-refining capacity."

Who determines what "considerably expand" means in context of the oil companies?

Hell if they give us one extra drop of oil production they'll be quick to jump on the write-off train.

This guy is silly.

Who cares what this blowhard thinks?

Newt's a jerk. His answer is to rip the tops off mountains, foul our coastlines, and continue to poison our air. I wish his battery would run out.

Why does want hs is saying sound like the same old stuff. This is part of the problem, this guys can and will not think beyond what they can see.

Newt Gingrich is intelligent and a historian of American government yet he continually makes false statements such as, "where government has acted, it has usually made the problem worse." California started acting on energy during the Brown administration. Our laws regulating pollution, requiring energy efficient appliances mean our state uses less energy per capita than most states. Government does get it right more often than Gingrich and the Republicans will accknowledge. Their constant repetition that government is the problem is clearly false.