Shame on Congress - Shame on Administration
Shame on Congress for writing laws that allow any unknown substance to be pumped into the earth. Shame on the administration for not regulating that as well. Pols are nothing but smarmy lawyers writing smarmy legislation that you can slide a Transformer sized monster-truck through although they'll give it a real pretty name (title).
Don't misunderstand, I am an "All of the Above" person and think the Obama administration 'winks' at their support for this policy. I think we should drill more, in more places and I believe that all our resources should be used until we get clean energy ready for prime-time; which at last reading is still 50-years or more in the future.
We need to spur R&D to clean-up coal and other fossil fuels so that we can use those abundant resources to supply power we'll need or see our economy substantially falter. We need to promote the use of natural gas where possible. Nuclear energy should not be left out of the mix either. We should add R&D to develop technologies that make each resource as safe as possible.
And, of course, we need to continue to put R&D monies to develop clean energies but we can't have clean energy sources that are prohibitively expensive; it would damage the poor and middle-class entirely and destroy any economy relying on them alone. Ideals are good but practicality is demanded in getting from here to there..
