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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (70123)	6/1/2008 8:25:31 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541401

"I guess you cannot identify a single person who thinks all we have to do is drill. Do you admit that one? I think when Bush came into office that he and Cheney believed all we had to do was drill. " So Steve - you think? I think you stepped into it on this one Steve. I think Bush wanted a balanced energy plan - like rational people who do not want a train wreck. I will wait for one you know - as you inferred! Here is an excerpt from the 2000 Rep platform. patriotpost.us · Increase domestic supplies of coal, oil, and natural gas. Our country does have ample energy resources waiting to be developed, and there is simply no substitute for an increase in their domestic production. · Improve federal oil and gas lease permit processing and management, including coalbed methane. · Provide tax incentives for production. · Promote environmentally responsible exploration and development of oil and gas reserves on federally-owned land, including the Coastal Plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. · Offer a degree of price certainty to keep small domestic stripper producers in operation. · Advance clean coal technology. · Expand the tax credit for renewable energy sources to include wind and open-loop biomass facilities, and electricity produced from steel cogeneration. · Maintain the ethanol tax credit. · Provide a tax incentive for residential use of solar power.