Juan Williams defends Obama “green energy” plans … calls Krauthammer “bird man”
No, it’s not what you think. It was all in fun. I think. But it is entertaining to watch as Juan defends drilling in Brazil and makes more excuses then a kid without his homework for not drilling in the US. Enjoy.
Just some context … When we pick up the conversation Krauthammer had already made a comment that windmills kill more birds than oil wells, and that drilling in Brazil instead of here doesn’t make us safer … just poorer. Enter Juan … “as far as the bird man here …”. Challenge!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKJkRkKnf0M
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Why does the left assume that Brazil or Mexico or Venezuela (or China drilling under the auspices of Cuba) will do anything in the Gulf of Mexico any better than U.S. drillers?? Other than political cover for ?bama with his lefty green supporters, what will they do better?? A spill knows no political boundaries.? Is there also an unspoken assumption that Brazil could not be one regime change away from membership in OPEC (like Venezuela) and someday consider us a political adversary?
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If oil is going to be drilled anyway, wouldn’t it be prudent to have us doing most of it, and directly influencing how it is done?? And despite the flowery, misty eyed protestations of progressives, until there is an acceptable alternate energy source, we are going to use oil.
Dims Asks, “wouldn?t it be prudent to have us doing most of it?”
?Of course it would be prudent and it would be the quickest way to decrease our dependence on foreign oil, but this administration is all about redistribution of wealth and punishing American exceptionalism. Some would even have you believe that oil drilling by US interests would not keep the oil in the US and therefore does not matter who drills and recovers it. That’s nonsense and there are multiple examples on this planet of oil independence and wealth. Brasil being one.
WOW, didn't have to go any farther than you two. Absolutely correct! We need to drill on our coast for our oil. We can in the mean time try to develop alternative methods, but meanwhile we are not number one in the world any longer and the WH and other people don't care, but I do!
So, let's depend on a despot for our energy, instead of a cartel? What is Juan smoking? Actually, don't we get more of the oil from South America than the middle East anyway?
Marilyn and Wag the Dog, excellent points also. RVO rules, well I wish it actually would rule, it would do better than that HOPE and CHANGE we got.
What was the MMS doing when they just signed off on the Plans, without looking at them.? This department is made up of highly?qualified engineers, well paid for their expertise.? How many heads? at MMS rolled after the BP explosion that took 10 lives.