rand paul: drill in 'every conceivable place' in america to supply europe with natural gas

[spanone]

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this clown is out of his fucking mind.

Rand Paul Says He Would Respond To Ukrainian Crisis By ‘Drilling In Every Possible Conceivable Place’



Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Sunday that he thinks the best way to respond to the crisis in Ukraine would be drilling for oil and natural gas “in every possible conceivable place” in the U.S.

Paul, who won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend, told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that if he were president, expanding drilling would be a key part of his response to Russia invading Ukraine.

“I would do something differently from the president,” Paul said. “I would immediately get every obstacle out of the way for our export of oil and gas, and I would begin drilling in every possible conceivable place within our territories in order to have production we can supply Europe with if it’s interrupted from Ukraine.”

Paul isn’t the first American lawmaker to call for exporting gas to Europe in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine. Last week, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said that the U.S. “should be upping our exports of natural gas to this region and showing there will be real consequences to these kind of actions.” A day later, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) introduced a bill in the House that would force the Department of Energy to fast-track the approval of permits to export natural gas to Ukraine and other European Union and former Soviet countries. Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) introduced legislation in the Senate which would also expedite natural gas export permits, saying that the Ukranian crisis “shows why we need to responsibly develop our natural gas reserves and expand our ability to export this resource abroad.”

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/09/3381381/rand-paul-gas-exports/

[Johonny]

1. everyplace but his back yard

[malaise]

2. These fuggers are beyond sick

Destroy America so you can destroy Putin.

[dsc]

3. To top it off this would destroy the coal industry

which is big in Kentucky

[kentuck]

4. Exactly how the Democrats need to frame it.

Yep.

[lunasun]

5. YE$

[Volaris]

6. considering that Europe looks to be on track to be mostly OFF fossil fuels in another 15 years anywa

That strikes me as a rather dumb fucking thing to spend tax money on...
This is rand weasling for a gimmie to the oil and gas men who wrote him campaign checks, the fucker.
Drill Baby Drill.

[Cha]

7. rand paul is an idiot.

[gulliver]

8. He's the George W. Bush of libertarian wackdom.

I love this guy. He's got zeal. He's not in it for the money. He's in it for Daddy. He's in it for the crazy.

This is like George W. Bush wrestling Herman Cain in a kiddie pool full of puke. In one guy.

[spanone]

9. 5 to 7 years to build the infrastructure to export it....he IS an idiot

'every obstacle' includes those pesky regulations that the oil companies have to abide by.

[bluestate10]

10. Paul threw out an impractical idea. The technical and financial obstacles to his

idea are enormous. Oil companies would have been tripping over themselves to set up liquefied gas plants if they were profitable today and years from now.