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Texas is the Saudi Arabia of coal and natural gas. We have more than anyone else in the world. The same folks who won't let us drill, dig, build nuke plants or refinery's are the same folks fighting against new coal power plants here. I was watching an Oil & Energy hearing on Cspan last week. It was alternating Democrats and Republicans speaking. The Democrats all used the same party line. “We can’t drill our way out of this problem”. Dem after Dem used it. One energy spokesman looked right at the Dems and said “you live by the banana theory, build absolutely nothing now”.

We have it . . . lets go get it! I don’t care to buy “Our” oil from the Cubans and Chinese. I’m all for alternative energy sources. We SHOULD invest in it . . . just not this way . . . while watching our economy fall off a cliff. The ONLY thing I give Jimmy Carter credit for is the tax incentives’ for solar and other alternative energy R&D he put in place in the 70’s. Reagan let them expire . . . the ONLY thing about Reagan I disapproved of. Why can’t we do both? Drill AND research new energy sources.

We have as much or more oil than anyone else in the world. It’s just off limits so it doesn’t get counted!! It’s like money in the bank that I’m not allowed to touch.

. . . . . . . on a little off note . . . . . . . CNN is the only choice we have at the cafeteria upstairs. They ran a story this morning on how Europe is fawning over Obama. I need to puke now.