From the category archives:

Energy

The Texas Republican State Convention is this weekend so I thought I would post the state party platform here today.  This version was adopted at the last convention in 2008.  It is only 24 pages or so and not a hard read.  Probably not many people read these things, but it is important to understand [...]

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“I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf,”

“I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick,”
And folks these [...]

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From Crisis to Agenda

June 3, 2010

“Now let me make one broader point, though, about energy.   The fact that oil companies now have to go a mile underwater and then drill another three miles below that in order to hit oil tells us something about the direction of the oil industry. Extraction is more expensive, and it is going to be [...]

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Ok, so I got lazy and did not write up anything up on the speech I talked about yesterday, but here is something so I do not leave you completely hanging.  There is a lot of talk from the left on electric cars and hybrids to save the environment.  Makes sense, right?  After all, as [...]

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The next thing

April 6, 2010

Based upon what I am reading, it looks like the President’s next thing will be cap and trade…once again.  I thought maybe an amnesty bill, but I guess that will come later.  I say this because last week Obama announced an expansion of oil and gas exploration.  It is obviously a political ploy to look [...]

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