Michele Bachmann Watch, 6/29/08

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from the DumpMicheleBachmann blog:




Michele Bachmann Interview with Jack Rice


Money quote:

Uh, some suggestions are that perhaps we would see an enhancement of wildlife expansion because of the warmth of the pipeline. It may do that. But the real message is that there, uh, the degradation to the environment would be minimally invasive if we access the energy that we have here.


by the Dump Bachmann Transcription Service.


MB 6-18-08 Interview with Jack Rice WCCO 830 AM

JR: Congresswoman, where do we go from here?

MB: What I’m suggesting is that America is sitting on a veritable treasure trove of natural energy resources. We should access them. We’re one of the only countries in the world that has handcuffed ourselves and made it illegal to access our own energy. That’s led America to be 7% more dependent on OPEC countries than we were last year. So we’re going in the wrong direction. What we’re suggesting in Congress is that we open up all our energy resources for development in an environmentally sensitive way and bring the prices back down again. It’s very possible, it’s very do-able, we know how to do the process, it’s just a matter that Congress has made it illegal to access our own resources, which we have. We actually, I think, one of the great things is that we can be a Saudi Arabia here in the United States. If you look only at Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, we have over 2 trillion barrels of oil just in those three states, and Saudi Arabia is estimated to have one trillion barrels of oil. So we can actually become a leading exporter, but in the meantime, what we want to do is be able to get energy prices back down to $2 a gallon or less. That’s my goal, to see that happen, and to happen as quickly as possible. That will do more to turn the economy around, I think, than anything else. And also grocery prices. It has a direct impact on grocery prices, too.

JR: You had a press conference just a couple of days ago that said within four years you could bring gasoline down to two bucks a gallon. Can you tell me specifically, what are the things that we should be doing?

MB: Sure, that would be with a very aggressive plan, and what we should be doing is opening up the outer continental shelf. Today 85% of the outer continental shelf is off limits, we can’t even access that, and yet, we have over 86 billion barrels of oil in the outer continental shelf. Just in the Gulf Coast region, we have one of the largest known reserves of natural gas – over 420 cubic – million --trillion feet of natural gas. In, in the Arctic energy slope there’s over ten billion barrels of oil, and we have in the Bakken oil field in North Dakota, South Dakota and southern Canada, another ten billion barrels of oil. If we would just access, for instance the North Dakota Bakken oil field, that would increase America’s energy reserves by over 50%. Let alone nuclear energy. My district has a nuclear power facility in Monticello, Minnesota. It supplies a clean, safe, affordable form of energy and produces zero emissions. We also want to build new refineries. We haven’t built a new one in over 30 years. And we could use retired military bases in order to open up new oil refineries. And then, also, we want to be able to extend the tax credits for alternative energy research, whether it’s wind, solo, uh, solar, biofuels, or other forms we haven’t even heard of yet, we want to extend tax credits to encourage investment in alternative forms of energy. In the foreseeable future, we know what energy works and what we have available. We want to access that. Plus, we have almost unlimited supplies of coal in United States. Now we have new clean coal technology so that we can access these products. So all of these energy resources, we can access them in a sound, safe, environmentally sensitive way, and we can bring the price back down to two dollars a gallon or less, but we need to act quickly, we need to move forward quickly, so that we can get this back on line. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2008/06/michele-bachmann-interview-with-jack.html

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