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August 26, 2008
Nancy Pelosi Is Completely Clueless on Energy
Posted by Dave Blount at August 26, 2008 8:23 AM
Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in the world, is largely responsible for determining our energy policy, which helps explain the extravagantly expensive gasoline that is dragging our economy down toward recession. Despite her awesome responsibility, she knows next to nothing about energy, to the point that she does not even understand that natural gas is a fossil fuel and is not conjured into existence by fairies but must be drilled out of the ground. Power Line offers a transcript of Nasty flaunting her appalling ignorance on NBC's Meet the Depressed:
BROKAW: Well, I think most people understand that, but at the same time, if we work our way off carbon-based fuels, in the meantime, this is not going to happen overnight.
PELOSI: No, it isn't, but you could — again, you could reduce the price at the pump immediately with (inaudible). You can have a transition with natural gas. You can have a transition with natural gas. That is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels.
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PELOSI: I'm — I'm investing in something I believe in. I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.
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PELOSI: Well, that's not — that is the marketplace. The fact is, the supply of natural gas is so big, and you do need a transition if you're going to go from fossil fuels, as you say, you can't do it overnight, but you must transition.
These investments in wind, in solar and biofuels and focus on natural gas, these are the real alternatives.
As for drilling to acquire the fossil fuel known as natural gas:
BROKAW: Sounds like we're going to have offshore drilling.
PELOSI: No, no, no.
Maybe Pelousy thought we could achieve an endless supply of natural gas by hooking up a tube to Ted Kennedy's backside. Notice that she still hasn't caught on that the biofuel boondoggle is an unmitigated disaster, much less that solar and wind power are nowhere near efficient enough to challenge fossil fuels and nuclear power, no matter how heavily they are subsidized with money looted from taxpayers.
On a tip from Byron.
