Gingrich Calls EPA “A Job Killing Regulatory Engine Of Higher Energy Prices”

[GoLeft TV]

In a meeting with Tea Party activists, former Republican Speaker of the House and potential 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was nothing more than “a job-killing regulatory engine of higher energy prices.” Gingrich was discussing with the group the best way to go about lowering gas and heating oil prices for American consumers, both of which he blamed squarely on President Obama. He also pitched the idea that the United States needed to lift bans on unconventional oil extraction, ignoring the potential consequences of that particular fuel source.

This is not the first time that Gingrich has seized an opportunity to go after the EPA. Back in January, he told the Associated Press that, if president, he would completely abolish the agency. In its place, he would create a new organization that works with businesses to help draft “friendly” environmental policies. Gingrich went on to describe how he views the EPA: “What you have is a very expensive bureaucracy that across the board makes it harder to solve problems, slows down the development of new innovations.”

Gingrich has long fought against environmental protections, claiming that their only purpose is to hinder economic growth. In 2007, he co-authored the little-noticed “Contract With The Earth.” In that document, he declares that it is the God-given duty of mankind to help protect the environment. But rather than attacking the continued abuse of fossil fuels, as Salon points out, he claimed that the biggest hurdle facing meaningful environmental action are things like health and safety standards, taxes, and legislation.

Read the full story here - http://desmogblog.com/gingrich-calls-epa-job-killing-regulatory-engine-higher-energy-prices

[no_hypocrisy]

1. "Let them drink Perrier . . . . "

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Is he still talking?

[Zoeisright]

3. Fuck you, Gingrinch (sic)

Just fuck you.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. eppur_se_muova calls Gingrich "A Waste Of Perfectly Good Carbon Atoms"

Just turn the microphones away from this has-been and leave his political career to rot in the sun like the lifeless corpse that it is.

[DCKit]

5. Does Newt's audience really believe the President has time to day-trade commodities?

With the kind of shit he's spewing, I'm thinking he's suddenly "In Love With America" again (the excuse he used for persecuting Clinton while dipping his wick in wife #3 while still married to #2).

Better keep him on a short leash Mrs. Gingrich.