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- CommentAuthorTheDoctor
- CommentTimeAug 26th 2008
speaker of the US House of Representatives displays an astonishing level of Ignorance about Fossil Fuels
this transcript from from an Interview with her:
BROKAW: Well, I think most people understand that, but at the same time, if we work our way off carbon-based fuels, in the meantime, this is not going to happen overnight.
PELOSI: No, it isn't, but you could -- again, you could reduce the price at the pump immediately with (inaudible). You can have a transition with natural gas. You can have a transition with natural gas. That is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels.
PELOSI: I'm -- I'm investing in something I believe in. I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.
PELOSI: Well, that's not -- that is the marketplace. The fact is, the supply of natural gas is so big, and you do need a transition if you're going to go from fossil fuels, as you say, you can't do it overnight, but you must transition.
BROKAW: Sounds like we’re going to have offshore drilling.
PELOSI: No, no, no.
How is it possible, when energy is such an issue - even in the US, that the speaker of the house does not know that natural gas is a fossil fuel? Yet this woman is so convinced of the rightness of her position that she presumes to be on a mission to save the planet. Not much good can come from such colossal arrogance fueled by such stunning ignorance.
Worth noting also that:
She also said that an investment she and her husband had made in a company that produces natural gas for use in automobiles, revealed last week by The Wall Street Journal, was not a conflict of interest because “I’m investing in something I believe in."
SO --here is the speaker in congress investing heavily in a natural gas company that converts cars to run on N gas ,---they just passed tax breaks for these types of companies -{surprise} --and Pelosi would not allow debate or a vote on drilling for oil .
The conflict of interest is huge --as is the typical corruption of the system . -
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CommentAuthormrswhitecat
- CommentTimeAug 26th 2008
I'm possibly being too kind but do you think it could be an "I say tomato you say tomato" thing happening here? -
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- CommentAuthorjon
- CommentTimeAug 26th 2008
That is truly unbelievable
Can you post a link that proves it really happened? -
- CommentAuthorChris Wardle
- CommentTimeAug 26th 2008
This kind of ignorance is unfortunately typical of legislators not just in the USA:-
You've got the Democrats who won't allow US companies to drill off-shore in the US, and hence allow the Cubans to do so with Chinese help almost within sight of the US coast, but are happy to buy oil off foreigners whose oil industries give far less regard to environmental protection (can anyone explain the logic in this?)
You've got a member of the US Senate Banking Committee who thinks Fed Chairman Bernanke came from Goldman Sachs confusing him with the Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (remember this is the Banking Committee responsible for overseeing the banking system...)
You've got 80 Labour MPs who think a windfall tax on the energy companies is going to help people with their energy bills when it will lead to a reduction in supply and increased demand for energy inevitably leading eventually to even higher prices.
You've got politicians on both sides of the Atlantic who promise the voters more spending and lower taxes, borrow the difference from foreigners and think that this can go on forever when their countries are already bankrupt were it not that they fiddle the accounts.
It is rare that I hear an MP or a Congressman or Senator saying something that either makes any logical sense to me or even sounds sincere. Usually it concerns some trivial issue and is directed at pleasing some kind of special interest group to the detriment of the general public interest. Unfortunately, it is from this dismal crop of individuals that our leaders are selected as the most able managers go into business and the great thinkers become scientists. Why can't they just identify the big issues, educate themselves then tell the people the truth and act? -
- CommentAuthorTheDoctor
- CommentTimeAug 27th 2008
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