Angles energy plan: Deregulate the mining industry, as well as the oil and petroleum industry.
Sure, why not? Deregulation and lack of regulation worked out so well for the economy, didn’t it?
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.
It makes perfect sense that Angle isn’t at all worried about our natural resources or the planet, by the way, and not just for the usual wingnut reasons (greed, love of big corporations, short-sightedness). Angle is special. She’s mixed up with some very fringe groups and probably believes Jeebus comes back when we finish raping the earth. It’s the sort of thing some Dominionists would say.
TPM has the audio and more, and reminds us that before BP took our attention, Massey Energy was in trouble for their numerous safety violations leading to the death of 25 workers in a mine explosion.
So, you know, deregulation is just what the mining industry needs.
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