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Monday, July 28, 2008 | 12:25 p.m.
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Seizing on public outrage over high gasoline prices, Democratic congressional candidate Dina Titus picked a Lucky Stop gas station in Henderson this morning as the backdrop for the roll-out of her comprehensive energy plan.
She noted that prices have fallen recently -- $3.92 a gallon, according to the sign behind her -- but said "there's no guarantee they will stay down."
Her plan, she said, involves short-term and long-term solutions that will "help now, bridge the gap and plan for the future."
Titus, a state senator and former Democratic nominee for governor, is challenging incumbent Rep. Jon Porter, a Republican who has been largely absent from the campaign trail this summer.
Among the immediate steps she would take if elected: tap the country's strategic petroleum reserve, crack down on oil speculators with tougher regulations and eliminate the tariff on Brazilian ethanol. She also supports offshore drilling, with the condition that it would be regulated by individual states.
Notably, much of those measures are more in line with those being proposed by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
Specifically, McCain supports offshore drilling and repealing the tariff on Brazilian ethanol. The presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, opposes both.
In the long term, Titus said she would repeal tax breaks for oil companies and redirect those incentives toward the development of renewables. Such a
move, she said, could make Nevada the epicenter of of the renewable energy industry. Titus also supports establishing a federal energy portfolio standard, comparable to the one Nevada has already enacted. (Twenty percent of Nevada's energy must come from renewable sources by 2015.)
She also supports investing in new biofuel technology.
Interestingly she's not backing the plan by Obama, hmmmm.......
You've probably heard this one before..."I do not belong to any organized party. I'm a Democrat."
She is for offshore drilling.
Perhaps the only Democrat in the country that is for it.
Good for Ms. Taxus.
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If Gull Island Didn't Blow Your Mind—This Will.
Three wells have been drilled, proven, and capped at Gull Island. The East Dock well also hit the Gull Island oil pool (you can tell by the chemical structure). For forty miles to the east of Gull Island, there has not been a single dry hole drilled, although many wells have been drilled. This shows the immensity of the size of the field.
Where is the energy crisis? It surely is not on the North Slope of Alaska, so it must be only in Washington, D.C.!
From 1973 through 1980 we were being told continually that America was in the midst of a major energy crisis, yet no oil production was allowed from the Kuparuk field. It wasn't until 1981 that permission was finally granted for production. Why the delay—if there really was a crisis?
The reason Mr. X made the statement that there is as much crude oil on the North Slope of Alaska as in all of Saudi Arabia is because the oil companies have drilled all over the North Slope and have proven there is that much oil there, but still they are only allowed to produce from the small area.
Possibly you, have heard it stated that the Alaskan crude oil has such a high sulphur content that it cannot be refined by most oil refineries in the U.S.
Well, here is a statistic that should silence those false claims and blow the lid off of that phony excuse of too much sulphur in the Alaskan crude. An August 11, 1980, analysis of the Prudhoe Bay crude oil, which is flowing in the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline, reads as follows:
Sulphur content - 0.9%
Flash point of the oil - 35 °F
Wax content - 6%
Asphalt content - 2%
Crude oil freeze temperature (better known as pour point) - 15 °F
The sulphur content of the Prudhoe Bay Alaskan oil is low in comparison to oil from other sources in the U.S., as well as many foreign oils.
The Alaskan Prudhoe Bay oil can be refined by any major refinery in America without damage to the ecology.
This means, then, that the widely publicized excuse of too high a sulphur content is simply not true. Therefore, it is just one more link in the long chain of falsehoods that we are asked to believe as Americans.
An energy crisis??????
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This seems incredibly odd of her.
Waiting for the democrats plan for a better tomorrow will come long after the city of Las Vegas has been mortally wounded. How does the city or state survive as fuel for airlines raise prices and the visitors have less money from buying their own. Pelosi and Reid are willing to lose an economy to win an election. How many union dues will be paid when the hotels are running 50%. What hotels are going broke when the new HUGE ones open as flights are cut back.. This isn't rocket science, this is visible at the grocery store as food skyrockets. Ask yourself, would we have cheaper fuel and cheaper food if the first Presidential Caucus had been in Alaska or Louisiana instead of Iowa?
Since 2005, Nevada's twenty percent "Renewable Portfolio Standard" has also included up to five percent (one-fourth of the total standard) energy efficiency as an electrical utility resource.
Energy Efficiency is the cheapest and cleanest electrical energy resource, and represents, arguably, the fastest way to reduce peak electrical power consumption and out-of-state purchased power, while providing green collar jobs for Nevadans.
Robert Tretiak
Business Development and Government Relations Officer
International Energy Conservation
Las Vegas, Nevada