Rick Perry Unveils Energy Plan to Get Government Out of the Way and Get America Working Again
The Texas governor is out of the gate with the first part of his economic plan, concerning energy:
Though our president has labeled Americans as soft, I believe our people have toughed it out the best they can. But they are looking for leadership and optimism, which are all too rare in Washington today.
What I am proposing today is the first part of an economic growth package that will rebuild the engine of American prosperity.
The plan I present this morning, Energizing American Jobs and Security, will kick-start economic growth and create 1.2 million jobs.
It can be implemented quicker and free of Washington gridlock because it doesn’t require congressional action. Through a series of executive orders, and other executive actions, we will begin the process of creating jobs soon after the inauguration of a new president.
There is, of course, an important role for Congress to play. And in a matter of days I will offer to the American people a broader package of economic reforms that I will take to Congress when I am elected President. My complete economic growth package will tackle tax reform, entitlement reform and real spending reductions in order to address our growing debt crisis.
But today I offer a plan that will create more than a million good, American jobs across every sector of the economy and enhance our national security, and the best news is it can be set in motion in my first 100 days.
My plan is based on this simple premise: Make what Americans buy, buy what Americans make, and sell it to the world.
We are standing atop the next American economic boom…energy.
The quickest way to give our economy a shot in the arm is to deploy American ingenuity to tap American energy. But we can only do that if environmental bureaucrats are told to stand down.
My plan will break the grip of dependence we have today on foreign oil from hostile nations like Venezuela and unstable nations in the Middle East to grow jobs and our economy at home.
America has proven but untapped supplies of natural gas, oil and coal. America is the Saudi Arabia of coal with 25 percent of the world’s supply. Our country contains up to 134 billion barrels of oil and nearly 1.2 quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas.
We have the resources we need to fuel our cars, our homes and our power plants. They can be found in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, New Mexico, Alabama, Kentucky throughout the American West and, of course, Alaska.
But President Obama and his over-reaching Environmental Protection Agency won’t allow American businesses and American labor to draw on even a fraction of this domestic energy from reserves on government-owned lands.
Perry’s plan calls for using the power of the executive to rein in the EPA, while also opening up more land to energy exploration and use. This plan is smart, hitting our economic problems from more than one angle at once, and in a way that can be implemented quickly. The Achilles heel of the Cain 9-9-9 plan is that it requires Congress to approve it. No matter how good that plan is, Congress will monkey with it. Congress will mutilate it. 9-9-9 will soon become 10-10-10, or 15-12-18 or worse. Or, after Congress messes with it, it will end up getting vetoed. The chances of such a plan surviving contact with Congress intact are remote.
Perry should take the concept of a USA standing ready to drill,drill,drill to the countries of Europe that would love to kick in Iran’s teeth, but fear an retaliatory oil embargo. He is sadly probably the best possible Democratic primary challenger to Obama.
Another point about 9-9-9 is that it should ideally be explored at the back end of a Cain presidency, well after the death of Obamamcare and nationwide dilligent immigration enforcement. A nine-percent 9or higher) national sales tax inadvertently provides a possible revenue stream for socialized health (e.g. a fast food tax, a sporting goods tax) and also provides fiduciary standing for illegals who can claim that they are paying some of their freight through sales taxes (or through say, an ethnic-foods or international calling card tax).
So, perry wants to be like Palin but hasn’t quite thought it all through. The first rule of the game, dude, is not to rein in the EPA by executive fiat. That leaves the EPA standing for some other dope to come along and resurrect it. Instead, have Congress write the regulatory bodies out of existence by law. Then an all above approach to energy. Then keep the environmentalist groups spending like mad to fight in court. He isn’t a reformer but a continued of the status quo. Perry is no Palin.
You’re right “Perry is no Palin.”
He’s a million times better!
Better perhaps at telling different groups what they want to hear. Better, perhaps at going along to get along with the establishment GOP instead of fighting corruption within it like Palin.
Perry can’t actually hold a candle to her.
Perry needs to tell the American people who and what he is and quit shying away from whatever it is he is afraid of as the debates have shown him to be. If he doesn’t, the GOP will be stuck with the Big Government types in the Republican Cain and the very Liberal RINO Romney–the Republican insiders pick. Tells conservatives just how far left the Republican Party has moved. There is now a far leftist radical Marxist controlled Democrat Party and a leftist controlled Republican Party. Perry better get over himself and take control of these debates or we the people and the American Republic are doomed. I had such high hopes Perry would be the one to stop Romney…so disappointed!
You forgotyour meds again!
Some of us dumb West Texas cowboys ain’t really near as dumb as y’all might think.
What if we run Perry and Paul? But neither one of them can raise the dead or even heal the sick- obviously unqualified.
Lets go for Cain then, because he is ownwed by the Federal reserve(Rothschild Syndicate) and he preaches that God smiles on those who rob, rape and kill as long as they trust in Jesus. That means, if he is right, that we can all rock out- and still go to heaven. Read the Hiscox Standard Baptist Manual and check it out. With Cain, we could have free pizza for all.
Is Jesse Jackson Jr. your adult male role model?
You have to slap your head trying to understand why energy isn’t the centerpiece of the entire Republican campaign, not just Perry’s: Jobs, GOOD jobs than CAN’T be shipped offshore, lower utility prices, less dependence on enemies, on and on and on.
This is easily the most exciting thing Perry has done.
It puts him back in the hunt.
Written like a true Palinista.
Well, Mr. Potato head, are you not the clown who constantly disparages the Oil industry in the Bismarck,ND Tribune? North Dakota has a 3.2% unemployment rate because of the Oil drilling which will go on for at least 50 more years. You must be one of those 3.2% lay-abouts who will not work but prefer to “itch and moan” while taking the handout!
No. I’m all for Big Oil, little oil and all oil in between.
I can already stitches on a fastball, and Perry like every other candidate is looking for a Palin endorsement.
Palin is last weeks laundry. Perry is actually running for the office. He has the real job to do. Big difference between advocating for a policy you may have to implement and gadflies who ultimately avoid any responsibilities. This is the first try for Perry at national policy making, and it isn’t a bad effort. I want to hear more of what he will try to do as President and less of these liberal hosted interrogation groups designed to trap Republicans into saying something that can be used against them. We are at war with our education establishment, our news media, and our labor unions, and we better learn how to control the dialog soon, or we will end up consigning our progeny to lives of servitude to the governing powers.
I concur.
Hopefully, Perry will hang his big ol’ unapologetic Texas-sized hat on a few key hooks: energy, security, free markets and the Constitution.
Less is more. Bold is good. Simple is best.
Right on GDI. Perry needs to stand up and take control–let Americans know what Texans know him to be. What is stopping him? This election is his for the taking if he wants it. Why he hasn’t already smashed his competition is confusing at best!
Put the big numbers up front. The how much gas, how much oil- how much- right here. It’ll be like putting up wal-mart signs: Why can’t we get it right now?
How many gulf oil rigs? How many miles of pipeline? How many jobs? How many men? How much gas, just sitting there?
How many energy generators opening up? How many jobs. The big deal isn’t what this does for him- it’s what it does for the voter. Or could do- the regulatory shmish-shmash is for the end of the speech.
Which is more hearable: ” I’ll fix your car. I’ll do this by blah blah blah transmission” or ” I’m here to take the transmission out of gear, I’ll flush the whatsis line, I’ll replace blah blah blah…your car will be fixed.” I want to hear my car is fixed. After I know my car can get fixed I might follow along with how it’s going to happen, or not.
Big, awesome resource numbers??? I don’t care how many sensitive people cry over dead buffalo and wasted nature- Most people go ” BIG Buffet of AWEsomeness..” Big energy, big jobs, manly men, high- paid construction workers, what’s not to like?
stop being stupid, go to his site, the answer to the numbers is there, charts and all for dodo heads like you.
Try re-reading his post, Tim, and this time go for some cmprehension.
It looks like the Perry full court press is on and I for one am ready! Give ‘em Hell, Rick!
Sounds like a plan.
Interesting reference to Alaska there. Running mate?
This is just the beginning – decisive and forward looking.
I loic it a lot !!!!!
No thanks. I’m done with executive orders. I’m pretty sure everyone on this page commenting is appalled when Obama signs them, but now that it’s OUR guy, they’re suddenly okay? I love the idea of drilling like crazy, but you’ve got to be insane to be okay with him doing it through executive orders. What’s wrong with you people???
Executive orders are what is stopping the drilling. I am down with using exec orders to repeal exec orders.
bobbyd12: You do realize that BHO implemented all of these restrictions/regulations via an executive order, right? To undo an EO, one has to do an EO … or it stands.
Don’t get me wrong. Respectfully, I fully understand the concern about EO’s. But we all need to know how Government actually works before making assumptions that things are bad. ijs.
No thanks. I’m done with executive orders. I’m pretty sure everyone on this page commenting is appalled when Obama signs them, but now that it’s OUR guy, they’re suddenly okay? I love the idea of drilling like crazy, but you’ve got to be insane to be okay with him doing it through executive orders. What’s wrong with you people??
Rob,
You don’t get it do you? All of this drilling is authorized by Congress subject to the regulations of the Dept of Energy, EPA, exc. The rules currently established by the bureaucracy including exec orders from past administrations make opening up drilling extremely difficult.
Perry is not suggesting subrogation of congressional powers, he is merely going to get the bureacracy red tape out of the way. It has to be done by exec order.
Rob: You do realize that BHO implemented all of these restrictions/regulations via an executive order, right? To undo an EO, one has to do an EO … or it stands.
Don’t get me wrong. Respectfully, I fully understand the concern about EO’s. But we all need to know how Government actually works before making assumptions that things are bad. ijs.
We don’t need the EPA reined in, we need it dismantled and all the bureacrats laid off. And undo the endangered species act and the Unlawful(in my opinion) privledge of Greenpeace etal. suing to stop energy production.
That is in his plan. He plans to dismantle the EPA and rebuild it to a smaller more efficient agency that consults with development with state agencies. He’s giving the regulatory decisions back to the states and there is tort reform proposals to deal with the environmental activists and he’ll have to wrangle with congress but he did it in Texas. Loser pays law led to a health care boom in Texas. Perry has been a great leader in Texas. During the last budget session he did not back down & said we don’t have the money so make the cuts (He was preserving the rainy day fund from complete depletion) For the 6th time in his tenure Texas had a balanced budget. (Democrats call him Paul Ryan on steroids)
S&P upgraded Texas to AA+ citing Perry’s leadership. Sales Tax revenues in Texas are back at 2008 levels and the state rainy day fund will be back to $7 Billion by 2013. Texas has cleaned it’s air faster than any other state but the EPA still wants to shut down our grid. Rick Perry has been fighting the EPA since he was State Agriculture Commissioner in the 90′s.
Read the plan at his site because it represents freedom from the tyranny of California’s dominance of national environmental standards and Federal EPA regulation that kills jobs.
It would have big impact in manufacturing and associated industries throughout the country & lead to regional growth. It will also impact the mid-east market & put us into a strong position with resource strapped China. China is preparing to drill off Cuba in Dec. 2011. Energy independence is a national security issue.
I’ve wanted to believe Perry was the solution to the Republican voters’ problems with Romney but afraid he was going to fizzle like Fred Thompson did 4 years ago. Fears unfounded!! This plan is exciting, fresh and goes right to the heart of the weaknesses in the other candidates’ messages: no one else has anything concrete to say about how they will support and help build an economic environment that will allow for growth and in turn, jobs. Get Congress out of the initial picture and then go back to them with a plan to tackle the tax structure and entitlements and the inherent impediments to economic activity they engender. Romney could probably beat Obama (Hell, my dog could probably beat him), but it’s impossible to envision him as the bold leader the times demand. This has the look of a first leg of a comprehensive economic vision that turns this nominating race on its head!!!!!!!!!!!
Pundits,media and opponents have always underestimated Perry. He campaigns directly to the voter and that is how he wins.
In his last gubernatorial campaign he was up against Hutchinson who was backed by the Bush Machine, Rove consulting & Houston. Everybody said he was dead. Perry ignored them and campaigned in every county of Texas meeting with voters.
He trounced her. He trounced White. All of his campaigns are made to be nail biters by the pundits. It’s part of the fun of following his races. This one is tough but I think he’ll climb back up in the polls.
This fight won’t be over for Perry till he says it’s over when the last vote is cast.
I think any of the Republican candidates would get behind that other than maybe Romney or Ron Paul. Of course Ron Paul would want private business to do it and would promote that.
One thing an energy boom would do is end the “Mancession,” which is what this recession principally is. Also, it will give excellent pay and benefits to mostly men who don’t have more than H.S. educations. The positive implications of both of those factors will be considerable.
Regarding Romney’s “anemic” job-growth, I made exactly this point here on PJM a few days ago and on Cain’s site, too. Where’s my h/t, Mr. Perry?
The one thing that not many have mentioned is the residual benefit nationwide. The ability to extract more oil and at will will slash the cost of crude. Even if OPEC cuts all production, the cost will by no means exceed what it is currently. The benefit is that the cost of shipping, refining, and distributing will drop precipitously since it will be done nationally instead of internationally. Take out the other items that add to the price due to EPA interference, and we will see a big drop in petroleum products. This, in turn, leads to cost saving for production of goods and services. This allows for lower prices for consumers, chances for expansion of businesses, and enhanced economic spending.
I think this is really exciting. First, it’s easy to understand. Romney’s plan is so detailed that if you try to follow it, you just glaze over. Herman’s plan is simple, also, but people are right, by the time Congress gets done with it, it will look like sudoku. Also, people haven’t quite awakened to the fact that if they currently pay 15% or less, or nothing, they will end up paying 18%, depending on what gets taxed. I’m still hopeful that Perry can put on a second burst of speed.
Having energy be the bell cow of an economy/jobs plan is the only plan I have heard so far that has any semblance to a plan that has specific goals that actually relate to job creation and economic stimulus. Every good period of economic growth has a bell cow ie high tech, dot com, housing, etc. while some of these bell cows subsequently fizzled others didn’t. The emergence of China and India competing for energy makes this plan even more relevant. The US and Canada can make North America the energy giant we need to maintain our exceptional status. Letting China and India deal with the crazies of the current energy king pins will give us the stability we need without the headaches. No gimmicks or “hopefully’s”. The real plus in all this is it will actually achieve major strides in non-carbon renewable energy due the experience with risk investments, R and D, excellent cash assets, distribution networks, and non-ideology business accumen oil companies bring to bear in this market. The are not dumb and know that they have to develop all energies for their own long term well being.
Is it possible that Perry was waiting until after the initial debates (especially the little-watched Bloomberg TV one) to introduce this plan in some form of a rope-a-dope strategy?
As someone who’d lived in Texas for the past 16.. wait, 17 years now(!), I’ve learned never underestimate Perry’s campaign. He may not be the smartest guy you’ve ever met, but he damn sure knows how to recognize smarts in others, and puts them to work for him. He drove the pollsters and media crazy in Texas this last election, and it appears he’s doing basically the same with his presidential campaign.
Thanks. I’m hoping you are correct.
Native Texan here and I’ve followed Perry’s campaigns since he beat Hightower.
He has never lost a race. He is the only candidate to beat both a Rove and an Axelrod campaign. Perry had a lot to do with helping George win his first race because he was already a successful and popular politician in Texas and all George had was a name & money. Rove won’t tell you that but it’s true.
He’s also very smart & good at building a very smart team. He packs a lot of punch in a simple phrase which is a west texas trait.
At last some specifics on how to get America Working Again! I love Perry’s plan because it is quite definite about what he is going to do and the resulting jobs it will create. All his ideas are doable and we must do them. T
A guy from Texas who thinks the way to solve every and all problems is to drill more and regulate less? Man this is new!!! Where do I send money?
Thanks Bryan. I read both Perry’s speech and the detailed plan as soon as both were available at those two links, and realized that no one except CNN was broadcasting his speech live, and even they stopped after a few minutes – heaven forbid anyone should get a chance to hear and see Rick Perry deliver a full throated & specific speech, which is always quite a contrast to these sixty second ‘debate’ moments.
My main disappointment is that Perry did not include most of America’s shale oil – Colorado is estimated to have more than one TRILLION barrels of shale oil (more than 150 years supply at today’s consumption).
Perry is probably already getting slammed by the WaPo/NYT for sounding like Palin’s ‘drill-baby-drill’ without any thoughtful analysis.
Especially about how much Executive power and the use of EOrders and control of regulatory Rules with the force of law truly are job-killing under Obama – I wonder how many notice the hypocrisy of Obama encouraging Brazil’s deepwater drilling so America can increase dependence on oil imports from Brazil.
I also wish Perry had been able to include how many USD now going out in trade deficit would be kept in USA GNP.
As to the timing? am still trying to figure out why the Perry campaign allowed Anita Perry to be filmed for more than fifteen minutes in SC yesterday at what looked like a smallish event. Kind of overshadowed his speech in the media, which really did a hatchet job on Mrs. Perry’s 15+ minutes. and the Bloomberg News analysis that proved that Texas under Perry really does create the most jobs.
I wonder if anyone (retiring Senator Jim Webb?) will challenge Obama on how he has hurt America with his ExecOrders/EPA?
well, only thirteen more not-debates to go…hope the GOP recovers from their truly rabid attacks on Perry’s defense of Texas on in-state tuition in time.
Perry’s plan includes fracking. He may not have named Colorado but any state that can frack can decide to frack. It will be up to Colorado.
Perry’s detailed plan focuses momuch more on gas-fracking in Marcellus and Utica shale formations (Utica off-limits while upstate New York descends into abject poverty!) Perry’s plan is not including Colorado’s estimated TRILLION+ of shale oil. I guess because Colorado’s shale oil formation runs through major water aquifer. I read about this because it is Texas-based technology that is currently working in Israel where their 250Billion (same as Saudi Arabia’s reserves) of shale oil is more than one mile above the aquifer. Perry has to know this because he led the trade delegation to Israel that is also key developer (Noble Energy) of the offshore gas fields in the eastern Med.
anyway, next big speech is Oct. 25, still on the economy.
Its very simple. Perry generates love in his followers. Romney does not.
There is that something about Rick perry – that special enigmatic quality that suggests that he is chosen by providence to lead our Nation back from the brink.
So it isn’t just me. You see it too.
Perry’s policy makes more sense than the generalities of any of the other candidates. What Perry understands that the others don’t is that manufacturing really is poised for a resurgence here in the U.S. For those that think drilling only means fuel for cars or producing electricity, they are completely missing the bulk of what “energy” (meaning oil/gas) is used for. Pittsburgh was a strategic rollout because of the closed petrochemical plants there. Romney will never be as bold as Perry. Perry is spot on!
For those who think in terms of natural gas and oil as only feedstock for making gasoline & diesel with providing fuel to home and electric power generation, think bigger.
Right now there is a backlog in every major engineering firm for the petrochemical sector. There are new manufacturing plants being designed for state like Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia where this once was a vital and vibrant economy. Perry’s plan AND election actually puts these projects into full gear with the knowledge that inexpensive and longterm access to hydrocarbons are key.
It is by no accident that the speech was given in Pittsburgh.
BTW, there is ample excellent feedstock for basic petrochemicals with what the Utica Shale promises in Natural Gas Liquids. That is a high dollar raw product.
One last thing regarding the Keystone XL pipeline. It will provide heavy crude to replace Venezualan crude in the 11 refineries in Texas and Louisiana. Chavez really does not have another market for use of his heavy crude as a primary feedstock. It will be downgraded to a blending feedstock.
kind of off-topic, but I can’t find the 99% post. Um, the protestors? keep mentioning divorced parents? and the commenters keep mentioning stable, intact families?
I was looking for something else- but 30% of divorced kids received any sort of support for college- but intact families it was 90%-not all prices supported- but any support at all. So, maybe it’s 99% of children of divorced parents? And that’s where some of the mutual incomprehension is coming in from? People keep deriding the kids for not planning as if they had a stable future? B/c maybe they didn’t have a stable past, and they are trying to climb out of that pit?
B/c the stuff I was reading was that children of divorce, as a group, have far less educational documentation than their peers. And, sadly, even their parents had more college and professional success.
Gambling on loans, to keep up with your parental Jones might be some of what’s happening.
Good plan and good presentation. I guess Perry is back in. Whoever is the nominee I will support them. If it is Perry or Cain we will be in for one of the biggest economic booms in our history. The others not so much. Romney will be nearly indistinguishable from Obama. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Perry needs to take this plan one step farther and tell the largely ignorant public that oil and natural gas are the primary ingredients in plastics, rubber (tires), fertilizers, medicines, and countless other products whose prices rise and fall with the price of these commodities. A lot of chemical manufacturing has been offshored in search of lower oil and gas prices. Cheap, abundant energy will nt only create millions of direct jobs it will create many more as chemical and plastics manufacturing comes back or increases. If Perry is truly able to neuter the EPA then we may see a renaissance in US manufacturing.
Most people think manufacturing left the US because of labor rates. That’s really only part of the reason. Other reasons are unions that disrupted production and caused companies to lose customers and regulations. Regulations dramatically increase the construction costs and time, increase operating costs, and make it near impossible to operate here in the US competitively.
Not only will massive increases in domestic supplies lower US prices, they will lower global prices and set the stage for a large scale global economic boom. We will also take money and power from despots and Islamic radicals.
Another major benefit is an immediate drop in our trade deficit as we stop or greatly reduce imports.
The last major benefit is to government coffers. Government at all levels will benefit handsomely from royalty payments, increases in the tax base, property tax base growth, and growth from increased economic activity.
Heck, we could even afford to continue to research alternative energy and throw the eco-Marxists a bone.
There are NO downsides to increasing US energy production. None!
Great points, Eric, but it’s even more basic.
High energy and fuel costs drive up the price of EVERYTHING that is produced, shipped, transported. Lower fuel costs payoff at the farm, in transit and at the grocery store checkout line. Everyone wins.
Abundant supplies of fuel/energy at lower costs reduce the price of US grown food, services, and both simple and complex products. These lower costs boost the economy here in the US and make all US products more affordable all over the globe.
Go, Perry.
I forgot to mention all the blue collar jobs, union and non-union, that would be created. It’s well past time for blue collar workers to fight back against the eco-radicals that continue to target their jobs.
I’ve supported Perry because he looked like the warrior we need. He’s held his fire but now he’s unloading both barrels.
This plan is right on the money. It’s solid and it’s realistic. This is what a real Chief Executive looks like, folks. Romney mumbles in comparison.
He’s not quoted here but I suspect he’s also going to push for new nuclear power too. Pittsburgh has the largest concentration of commercial nuclear employment in the country.
This is a good plan. It is stunning something like this has not been the basis of every republican candidates plan.
I have see Perry make mistakes and learn from those mistakes.
Romney still is a strong supporter of government run healthcare and man made global warming. Romney is a big, bigger government kind of republican. Romney is better than Obama, but still closer to Obama’s political beliefs than anyone but Jon Huntsman.
I hope Perry is ready to get moving. He seems to have baited Romney to go all in on defending Romneycare and with the links of Romney’s aides to forming Obamacare Romney is set up for the fall. I like Cain, but Cain refuses to take on Romney. It really seems almost all the condidates are more focused on Perry than Romney, there must be a reason.
Perry’s Plan is the best plan out there and is the fastest way to get us back on track. I do hope other conservatives keep Perry in mind.
About time but it won’t substitute for a strong debate performance. As long as Perry looks asleep rather than engaged when other questions are asked and answered of/by others, as long as he isn’t on the red-meat attack bandwagon, we’re gonna assume he can’t beat Obama in a debate and will go for someone who can.
Up your game, Rick. Show us the real Perry. The next debate is not the time to be timid or bashful. Kick some OBAMA butt and ignore Romney. Show us YOU’RE the one to defeat the clown in the WH.
America does not need another next-in-line Rockefeller Republican. We NEED someone who will RETURN AMERICA TO GREATNESS
Alas, the next debate, Tuesday, Oct. 18, will be moderated by CNN’s Anderson “wow-that’s really good stuff” Cooper in Las Vegas.
and, with eight candidates, no time for anyone to say anything meaningful.
Perry has to let the Cain-phenom play out on it’s own. Brilliant for Haley Barbour to praise 9-9-9; let the media pundits shred it.
“Make what Americans buy, buy what Americans make, and sell it to the world.”
really says it all.
No thank you to Mr. Perry. All this drill, drill, drill is utter nonsense. The fact is, all oil drilled is sold on the open market, American oil can be sold anywhere. The more oil that is put on the open market, the more OPEC pulls back from the market to steady the price. Fact is, America cannot tell a multi-national company what and where to sell their oil, unless you want to be labeled anti-free market or a “socialist”
Obviously you do not understand pricing in crude oil, or refining. There would be a transportation charges to load aboard ship then to ship overseas. Plus there is the pipeline fees to get it to the terminal. Brent crude is priced at point of lading in the North Sea, NOT at point of destination.
Now certain types of crude go to certain types of refineries. Take for instance Venezuelan Crude. Much of it goes to only 11 refineries in TX & LA along with a refinery in St. Croix. These are configured for heavy crudes and are the most complex in the world. Should the Keystone XL pipeline be completed, that which gets to the Gulf Coast displaces Venezuelan Crude.
This doesn’t sound all that different from the Romney proposals set forth in Believe in America.
This speech is obviously an attempt to garner Sarah Palin’s endorsement.
Deathsentence
Death sentence?
Every candidate on stage is looking for a Palin endorsement.
For Perry clocking in at 10%, it would appear he needs it more than anyone.
I like the idea. I hope all the GOP candiates pledge to let us drill for our own oil instead of being held hostage by terrorists countries..
First: Thanks so much for a great review. Exciting to get here from RCP!
Second: Comments here re the WaPo review are spot on. Comments to the WaPo articles mostly greenies … lots a wind. Ugh.
I fully support Governor Perry (and for that matter the Palin’s) plans to unleash US energy! It is well past time our country regains its common senses. Having read extensively on these issues, I agree that permitting environmentally safe drilling, fracking, and mining opportunities in and around the US would unleash a gold mine in jobs and substantially benefit our economy. It would be an outstanding start to get America (the US) working again! It could even ultimately provide the benefit, to the US and other countries, of exportable energy sources. Energy independence would make us safer and we would no longer be tethered to import costs.
The sorry news is that since the inception of this Administration we are trillions more in debt. Forty cents of every dollar is borrowed. Unemployment is 9.1 percent. We are moving rapidly toward bankruptcy! By the time we have endured another 14 months of the current administration we are highly likely to be in a world of hurt! We will need a new President who will use all the tools available to him to turn our ship of state around and head it back into safe waters (so to speak). Personally, I don’t begrudge any tool for a leader we trust has our best interests at heart in the face of the emergency we will be facing. These “medicines,” for our best interests, take time to implement. He can get them started and then in concert with congressional support further their effective implementation.
I am hoping the Governor will be there, as President, to get us moving again in the “Right” direction.
Yeah as if all the 25 million unemployed people will become oil rig workers or offshore oil drilling workers. My goodness! What about the white collar jobs? His plan is not sufficient enough. He only estimated a little over 1 million will be employed. What about the 24 million? Perry’s plan comes out short. He should think of more ways to open more good paying jobs. I’m not buying Perry’s plan. He sure did not write it. At the debate, he was slow and lethargic. His answer only winged it to energy. He was unprepared.
LoL… because the only people necessary for survey for, drill and retrieve oil are blue collar workers. Think a little harder dear.
Thanks for this post, Bryan. I like the vision of Governor Perry and his willingness to stand up to overreach by the federal government. I also like the general premise that America can solve her own problems by using her natural, God-given resources. This is an inspirational initiative.
Looking forward to the rest of the Perry economic growth package for putting Americans back to work!
I am so excited! I have been a Perry supporter from the beginning! We are going to beat Obama and send his sorry self back to Chicago or wherever he is from! Perry is just getting started but he needs our help! Please donate, donate, and donate some more!
This is something that every president and every session of congress has failed miserably to do since the first hurricane flags went up in the 1973 OPEC oil embargo. And BOTH parties are responsible for that.
But better late than never….and this time we damn sure better follow thru and do it.
America is either gonna be independent or it is not. We have the food production and domestic energy resources to tell China, Russia and our so-called friends in the Mideast to take a hike. OPEC….take your oil, fry up some falafel sandwiches in it….and phuck off.
If China feels the need to do oil deals with those hellbound crackpots….then be my guest. And the next time shit hits the fan in the Mideast, let’s see China keep those shipping lanes open with that pathetic, rusty aircraft carrier of theirs.
As far as the drilling of domestic energy resources and the development of alternative fuels….had that idiotic charlatan Obama embarked on that, instead of his disastrous healthcare plan, he’d might actually have something like 6-7% unemployment and at the same time would have clobbered Russia and the Mideast oil thugs with the economic equivalent of a predator missle in lower oil and natural gas prices.
So screw the regulators, screw the speculators and screw the prairie dogs that have to scatter when the drilling starts…just start drilling.
This initiative should re-energize Rick Perry’s campaign…but whichever GOP candidate chases Obama back to Chicago should present this as their absolute top priority and get it done.
Only a energy state governor will do it. Same with securing the border only a borderstate governor will do it. Bush should have done it but 9/11 happened and he punted.
This is the most exciting thread regarding a Republican candidate I have read in the last few years. Simple, bold and direct and an effective thumb in the eye of the Obama machine.
Perry has the opportunity to capture the imagination of the Republicans and the Independents which is absolutely essential for a Republican victory.
If the Republican Establishment serves up more warmed over pablum like we had in 2008 (Palin excepted) the country is toast and we can bank on another four years of unprecedented federal intervention in the lives of the productive class.
I was with you until you turned dirty and had to go about trying to destroy another competing for the same job, what does Mitt have to do with Energy development plan of yours? and would these jobs be for illegal Mexicans or could citizens of this Nation work them?
Perry’s WORK production has ALWAYS been his best selling point to me. He’s done what leaders do and has the most energized, job producing large state in the nation.
It is ridiculous that America has the world’s largest energy reserve and are using only 4% of it – Perry has it exactly right, abusive regulation and frivilous lawsuits are at fault – time to unleash America again.
Here’s an idea to Perry—regulation for energy companies save tax payers money. He was just in PA. HE NEVER mentioned that recent oil drilling has lead to BROMIDE and other high levels of carcinogens in the Allegheny river. This is due to treatment plants attempting to clean fracking water. This will raise taxpayers water rates. Doesn’t that go against the Norquist pledge he signed???
Regulations that provide a safe environment for some strange reason is under attack…
Drilling for oil cannot possibly be the solution to our current economic woes.
Because our current economic woes weren’t caused by any energy shortages, but by both Americans and governments drowning in debt.
We now have 23% of American homeowners upside-down on their mortgages, due to the collapse of housing prices. Their “wealth effect” is gone, they feel much poorer, and they’re not buying big-ticket items like cars and vacations like they used to. Many of them are facing bankruptcy.
If Perry lowers their fuel bill, they will still be upside-down on their mortgages because they have lost tens of thousands of dollars more on the equity in their homes than they will save on fuel costs.
I also notice how unequal this plan is. Perry has been touting how well Texas has been doing economically–which everyone realizes is at least partly due to their oil revenues. So this plan is for Texas to do even better economically with more oil revenues and more jobs in the oil industry. Gee, what a surprise: Perry has unveiled a plan which benefits his home state.
Has Perry said how states which don’t have oil or natural gas will fare under this plan? Why should voters in states without oil or natural gas vote for this plan?
Perry’s plan is the flip side of Obama’s plan–and just as irrelevant to our current economic problems.
I sure hope Perry has a lot more in the rest of his plan (to be unveiled later) than this. Because this doesn’t begin to solve any of the problems we have today. It’s a solution looking for a problem.
Drilling for oil is the ONLY way out of this economic disaster.
Like it or not, acknowledge it or not, our currency as well as every other currency in the world rides on a petroleum standard. The more oil we produce and ultimately export, the stronger the dollar and the more buying (paying off debt) power the dollar has.
It’s not the only way. I could solve the crisis in 5 minutes, without using the word oil.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_762021.html
followed up Perry’s speech with an interview – three separate videos at this link – found today at RCP – showing how well he does in interviews like this one with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
sinz54 might want to visit Perry’s website for detailed information about Texas job creation done by Bloomberg News, and read the details behind his Friday speech, which includes a map that shows job-creation in different regions for this energy plan, with 500,000 of the 1.2 million in the western mountain states.
I do wish someone would try to deal with the housing crisis that, imo, is a deep-rooted cause of the very sluggish recovery. Texas largely escaped the price bubble in part because Texas kept the post-S&L crisis (late 1980′s) regulations in place.
But, if the media could distract itself from the trivial, they might start noticing the impact that higher gas prices since Obama restricted deepwater drilling have had on everyone, that New England is facing electricity shortages by 2013 because of environmental regs, etecetera.
I am dreading my first fuel oil delivery bill, and since I have so much time at home, know full well how gov policies are restraining recovery.
and I am a registered dem now seeing Perry as the sole candidate who can start to restore confidence. The more time I spend in Massachusetts, the more I see the damage of Romney’s legacy, and the cluelessness of dems. Should have moved to North Dakota in 2003 when I thought that was the last sane place in America. Now ND has a housing shortage because of their shale oil boom.
we import $500,000,000,000 in oil and gas. why? produce our own gas and pay off the national debt as well as put millions of people back to work. a national sales tax is a joke. energy production will be this nations salvation.
Meanwhile the rest of the world is heavily investing in green energy and education…but we want to cut education , pell grants and stop green energy expansion….I wonder how long it will take us to realize that we’re being seen in other countries rear view mirrors
Which countries would those be? Perhaps those in Europe…. which is teetering on the verge of total economic collapse?
Perry is a juicy steak with thick french fries and Romney is oatmeal.
As a fairly strong Perry supporter, I have been befuddled by his poor performance in the debates. As I mentally replayed some of the distressing moments in the past few debates, I tried to figure out what he was lacking. I distrust pretty much all politicians, so I’m surprised to be having this thought, but it seems Perry has been too gentlemanly with the sharks in the water. He has seemed unprepared for the attacks from the other candidates. One example: A proven believer in States’ rights, instead of going after Romney about healthcare, he defended Massachusetts’ right to decide for itself. This is my kind of man.
This is going to be a weird campaign season, but I had hoped that all of the candidates would have stayed where they started: anyone on this stage would be better than what we have now. I am hoping that Perry is now prepared to take the fight to the incumbent. Perhaps the others will regain their correct focus on defeating Obama. My simple advice to any of them would be “no snipes at each other, all aimed at Obama. Attitude should be to vote for whomever you think has the best idea. Give my re-energize America plan serious thought.”
One of the things I like best about my Guv is that he really does believe in States’ sovereign rights. It’s the Constitution, and it makes sense. It keeps the feds’ big noses out of where they don’t belong. One size doesn’t fit all. Respecting States’ Constitutionally-protected rights gives residents a better voice in matters specific to that state, and it gives them the choice to move to another state if they really object to something.
Perry’s biggest bug-a-boo seems to be immigration policy. Most people don’t seem to get it that the majority of Texans wanted the policy of allowing children of illegals to pay in-state tuition. This was not Perry’s plan. A Republican Congress overwhelmingly, veto-proofedly passed this bill. Do Perry’s detractors think he should have gone against the will of the People with an Executive Order?
It is the fed government’s job to defend our borders. One of the very few things I actually want them to do with my money, they don’t do. Washington has handed border states lemons. In Texas, we’re trying to make lemonade. If Perry were elected, the borders would be sealed, then the individual states would properly decide what to do with those already here illegally. As angry as I’ve been about illegal immigration my entire life, I believe most of us would wholeheartedly believe in helping those already here.
Perry and most Texans believe you have to turn off the water pipe before you start bailing out the water. Let’s send him to Washington so he can turn off the water.
Perry/Gingrich 2012 RE-ENERGIZE AMERICA!
Hey “Another Texan” from California, did I miss something? Our idiot gov Jerry Moonbeam Brown just shoved this down our throats too. My tax dollars go to pay for the education of someone who is here as a lawbreaker and who with a nice shiny degree would not be allowed to work in this country without breaking even more laws…how does that make any sense? Or are those few legal residents still living in the great state of Texas just as stupid as those few in Calif?
Texas tax dollars do not go to pay for anyone’s tuition. The illegal aliens who meet the criteria (which includes already being in the process of getting citizenship) are permitted to pay the same rate all the other residents of Texas due. Nothing is being subsidized by the state.
thank you amy, the ill-informed rage on this micro-issue is truly disturbing. Perhaps now that Cain has called for an electrocuting-fence along the entire border with Mexico, Gov. Perry will get a second look.
California DID include scholarships – maybe neal needs to understand the difference.
“electrocuting-fence”? Hummmm, I haven’t heard that before, but if true, Cain is sounding better all the time. I personally lean towards a three layer barrier, first a mine field, then barbed wire, then machine gun nests. Another good one is to tell mexicans to vacate a five mile zone back from our border, then irradiate the zone with plutonium pellets.
God bless Rick Perry! God bless America! and God bless Texas!
I understand all Perry’s wonderful numbers are based on oil prices doubling.
Is that true? Because that makes it much more likely that any jobs gained would be offset by jobs lost.
Or maybe it was electricity doubling… something doubled. At any rate Perry is much like Obama. For him to succeed Americans have to pay more for energy.
I vote no on Perry’s “plan”.