Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) stopped by an event Monday sponsored by PIRG and the Young Republicans to talk about energy policy, among other things. In his speech, he was bullish on the prospects for oil production in the United States.
"If we can get every drop ... we've got more oil in the U.S. than any country in the world if you include our oil shale," said Voinovich. "We ought to be in a position where we're selling oil to the rest of the world."
The crowd was enthused by this statement, though the oil shale situation is a bit more complicated than Voinovich indicated. Getting at oil shale is an expensive, resource-intensive process that oil companies have, in the past, deemed not worth the effort.
Voinovich authored his own industry-friendly climate bill earlier this year, and has taken issue with GOP presidential candidate John McCain's call for a cap-and-trade system.
I caught up with Voinovich after his speech to talk about energy and climate legislation:
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randino Posted 12:40 pm
02 Sep 2008
Randy Cunningham
Cleveland, OH
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Biodiversivist Posted 1:21 am
03 Sep 2008
If Americans want "energy independence" they must also be willing to pay for it. They don't know that yet.
The Americans supporting this oil independence idea are at present unaware that the world market will always be the cheapest place to get your liquid fuel.
Once they find out that oil independence will increase the cost of their gas, exascerbate global warming, and wreak more environmental damage locally, it will be too late. Politicians will have funded their political careers with money from the coal and oil industry, and will be well paid consultants for the companies that lobbied them when they were in office.
Watching politicians manipulate the American public, of which 2/3 is under the left side of any given bell curve can be entertaining, in a gallows humor sort of way.
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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amazingdrx Posted 1:31 am
03 Sep 2008
1 dollar per gallon of gasoline equivalent miles, from the power company, free from your home solar panels, once the payback period has been acheived through energy savings.
If renewables and plugin hybrids enjoyed the subsidies now going to gas guzzling transportation, that payback period would drop to a few yeats.
A good investment? Free "gas" and electricity, after a few short years? It would seem so. 90% of your gasloine use could be eliminated with a plugin hybrid.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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archigeek Posted 2:44 am
03 Sep 2008
The mellotron is your friend.
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archigeek Posted 2:46 am
03 Sep 2008
The mellotron is your friend.
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