Sharron Angle’s energy plan: Deregulate the ‘mining industry,’ as well as the ‘oil and petroleum

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Sharron Angle’s energy plan: Deregulate the ‘mining industry,’ as well as the ‘oil and petroleum industry.’


On May 26, a few weeks after BP’s oil disaster began, U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R-NV) told a local media outlet that her solution to America’s energy policy would be to “deregulate” the oil industry. While both conservatives and liberals agree that this catastrophe could have been prevented if BP had invested more in safety and if regulators had been more attentive, few, if any, have taken the extreme view at there is actually too much regulation on the oil industry. However, last Wednesday, while appearing on the hate-filled website ResistNet’s Internet radio station, Angle reiterated her position and explained that if elected, she would ensure that “government isn’t over-regulating” the “oil and petroleum industry,” as well as the “mining industry.” Angle appeared to attack her opponent, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), for supporting the Mining in the Parks Act, a law that prohibits mining in National Parks:

ANGLE: I was just saying we are over regulating some of our industries and of course the oil and petroleum industry is one of those we’ve been over regulating and that has what has been dependent on foreign oil. And of course that dependence gets us into big troubles overseas. And, we need to not have the dependence, we need to come back and explore our domestic resources and take the regulation off. If we would take the regulation off, we could explore in ANWR, and also some of the other places we have oil reserves that we’re not doing that right now. One of the other things that Harry Reid has done is that he is stifling the mining industry right here in Nevada by using the Monument Act to keep mining engineers from going out and prospecting or exploring for those mineral resources because the regulations they have on a monument you can’t do any digging or prospecting. So, that’s the kind of thing we need to do with all of our natural resources — make sure that the government isn’t over regulating those industries and causing them to be outsourced, like the oil and petroleum industry.

Listen here: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/28/angle-mining-oil/

Before the news was saturated with headlines about BP’s unfolding disaster, mining giant Massey Energy killed 25 workers in a mine explosion. The mine was cited for numerous safety violations, however radical anti-government ideologues like Angle believe that the problem with the mining industry is actually too much regulation.

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1. has any politician ever been so wrong?

[Winterblues]

6. Let's see...Bush*, Reagan, Cheney, Lott, Gingrich, Hastert, well the list seems almost endless.

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2. Sharron? Does that mean "obtuse" in her parent's language?

One would think that people this stupid would be eaten by termites at night.

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

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4. Well, Nevada doesn't have a coastline

And nobody Sharron Angle knows or is likely to know will ever work in a coal mine, and she really, really likes "cheap" energy. Do you think if she had to fill the tank on her car with the actual blood and bones of the people and the wildlife her policies would kill that it would finally penetrate her skull?

Harry Reid should be down on his knees every night thanking God, Moroni, Cthulu, or whoever for the gift of Sharron Angle as his opponent in the general election.

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5. Uber-idiot

As, I believe it was Madow, somebody pointed out just the idea that drilling for more 'domestic' oil makes us less reliant on 'foreign' oil is wrong to begin with. The idea being that oil is a commodity once it comes out of the ground it is sold on the world market. As far as I know there are no laws in place that say if we lower regulation any and all crude that is pump will be dedicated to going to only our refineries and any resulting products will only be sold with the US. The only thing accomplished by deregulating polluting industries is to allow them to make more money (how much are they giving Angle?) while destroying our environment even more. To say that in the name of commerce and corporations of today they have a right to pollute our environment in ways that may last for generations is just short sighted and wrong.

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7. She's a real piece of work

Let's see if the RJ-pro repug paper-carries water for her. Yeah, it's not like the corporations don't have enough power now--let's just make sure that they can kill us faster by further policing themselves--I just love drinking poisoned water and eating tainted food. And, if we make sure that we have more uneducated people voting because she'll dismantle public education, I'm sure she'll be a shoe in for the next election round.

I'm telling you, we are going to see how many "crazies" we actually have in Nevada come election. And hey, it's not a senator's job to create jobs in your state. (note: sarcasm)

I glanced at the RJ yesterday, and the top caption was that women like Angle. What woman in her right mind? oh, wait a minute, the same women who think Palin is just fabulous. I'd say in regard to women's privacy, women's rights, she's no friend of women. Of course it looks like she's no friend of the environment, of education, of the disabled or of the elderly. "Corporate whore" comes to mind.

Some of the things these teabaggers come up with, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, FDR, and even Thomas Paine would be rolling in their graves.