{"id":2642,"date":"2011-02-02T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2011-02-02T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:31:02","slug":"a_voice_crying_for_a_sane_unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"A Voice Crying For A Sane United States Energy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNS News<\/a> is reporting today that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has stated that the way for America to solve its energy problem is for the government to get out of the way and allow the private sector to develop the country’s own natural resources–coal, oil, and natural gas.<\/p>\n

Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy, spoke Tuesday at the Chamber’s national headquarters in Washington, D.C., at an event to unveil the institute’s new plan, “Facing Our Energy Realities: A  to Fuel Our Recovery.”<\/p>\n

According to the article:<\/p>\n

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“The <\/em>plan<\/em><\/a> – based on an “Energy Reality Tour” involving travel to 30 states and meeting with some 15,000 business leaders across the country over the last year – calls for maximizing U.S. energy sources, ending regulations that hinder developing those sources, making clean energy more affordable and eliminating energy trade barriers.<\/em><\/p>\n

“”The point of this plan is to recognize our economic reality,” Harbert said. “And it is not to spend a whole lot of new taxpayers’ dollars.<\/em><\/p>\n

“”In fact, it’s to find ways that are increasingly revenue neutral; that will increase the availability of energy while at the same time removing barriers to investment that will actually create revenue and create jobs in this country,” Harbert said.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The plan will be submitted to the Obama administration and Congress, Harbert said.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If nothing else, the situation in Egypt should make us more wary of being dependent on energy sources that may not be reliably friendly to us.  Common sense dictates that developing our own energy resources, rather than depending on anyone else to supply our energy needs, is a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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