Kinda like a cross-post...
It is with great pleasure, I bring you another OH-16 "Two-fer"!
Schuring Will Cost Ohio $5 Billion at the Pump before "Energy Plan" Takes Effect
Canton, OH – Rather than providing bold solutions to begin immediately easing pain at the pump, Kirk Schuring has endorsed George W. Bush’s energy stance, which calls for Americans to sit back and wait 20 years while big oil companies prospect for new sources of oil.
In Sunday’s edition of the Canton Repository, Schuring said that opening new areas in ANWR and the Outer Continental Shelf to drilling was a "short-term" solution that would "dramatically increase domestic energy production" and "have an immediate impact at the pump."
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Even George W. Bush’s Department of Energy projects that this approach "would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030," and that expanded drilling in both ANWR and offshore would boost domestic oil production by at most 4% twenty years from now. Experts predict that even that increase would be largely cancelled out by declining global supply.
"Middle class families can’t wait 20 years for lower gas prices, especially when Kirk Schuring’s gas tax hike is going to cost them an extra $5 billion at the pump between now and then," Congressional Candidate John Boccieri (D-Alliance) said today.
"Instead of giving voters a serious plan to bring down oil prices and lower gas prices immediately, my opponent offers nothing but failed gimmicks straight from George W. Bush’s playbook."
Without a single serious proposal for short-term relief, the Schuring/Bush energy "plan" is nothing more than a continuation of the last seven years of failed Washington policies that provide giveaways to the oil industry while Americans’ gas prices double. This comes as no surprise, given that Schuring has taken over $20,000 from oil companies and chaired George Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign in Stark County .
"We need swift, serious, far-reaching energy solutions," Boccieri said. "To start relieving pain at the pump today, we should open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, drill on the 68 million acres of U.S. land and coastal waters that are already approved for drilling, and transition to alternative energy sources as soon as possible."
We don't need George W. Bush's failed policy and Kirk Schuring's Tax Increase strangling OH-16 from The U.S. House of Representatives! We need real solutions that benefit the citizens of our district instead of big oil, special interest groups, and Washington lobbyists!
...and now, Boccieri's point of view!
We know that all of the readers of OH-16: John Boccieri for U.S. Congressdon't all get "The Canton Repository". So, it is our great pleasure to bring you a Sunday, "Editorial" by the Senator Major John Boccieri(D) himself. This is "smart" OH-16 energy policy!
Make oil companies drill on land they already have
Sunday, July 20, 2008
BY STATE SEN. JOHN BOCCIERI
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE,
16TH OHIO DISTRICT, U.S. HOUSE
We need to bring gas prices down today and achieve energy independence as soon as possible. That means releasing fuel from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, making oil companies drill on the land they already have, and accelerating our transition to alternative energy sources. ANWR drilling wouldn't yield oil for 10-20 years and would do more for oil company profits than for the American middle class.
Right now, oil companies are sitting on 68 million U.S. acres, including coastal waters, that are approved for drilling today. They should stop prospecting and start drilling.
Under the Bush administration, oil companies have received huge tax breaks and quadrupled their profits, and all we have is $4-per-gallon gas. They've done nothing to demonstrate that giving them even more will get us out of this mess.
Reducing our fuel consumption is as important as developing alternative energy sources.
In the same time that big oil companies want to spend prospecting, we could completely transition to proven alternatives like wind and solar that would create "green-collar" jobs and free us from oil forever. We need to invest in serious research, like Stark State's fuel-cell facility, not game show gimmicks.
Nuclear should be a part of America's energy policy, but only if reliable and completely safe for local communities and the environment.
Park Farms in Canton is struggling to afford corn feed for chickens. We should develop diversified, next-generation biofuels that we can grow in the 16th District and refine at cutting-edge local refineries, boosting our entire economy. Utilities should be required to develop 25 percent of their production from "clean" energy sources by 2025. In the Ohio Legislature, I supported a similar measure.
Ohio sits on 250 years of coal reserves. A clean-coal refinery is being built in a neighboring county. Stark County could be the next location for a cutting-edge facility.
We'll be brining you more as Kirk slowly "digs" his way back to 1999!
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