Believe: Part Three (Energy Policy)

Here comes the Energy Policy for Mitt Romney's Believe, which I am sure included three parts: Drill, Keep Drilling, and Why Did You Stop Drilling?

To start it all off, Romney tells us that our energy production is directly linked to how strong the national economy is. To really win us over on the idea of domestically produced energy, he tells us that it would save the American people from being taxed so extensively. Willard links an increase in domestic energy, and therefore our economy, to a stronger US Treasury and dollar. BOOM! Less taxes. 

Again, to play antagonist, Romney start with the Obama approach, which is cleverly named, It's Not That Easy Being Green. 

The disaster that everyone thinks of when they picture oil in America is the BP Oil Spill in 2010. Providing no sympathy, Romney only uses that as a way to make Obama look like an ambulance chaser. "[T]he 2010 BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico provided political cover for the implementation of the Obama administration's dangerously short-sighted energy policy." While the policy, which banned all off-shore drilling, does seem like a knee-jerk reaction, it sure isn't a dangerous plan. Next up is the criticism of Obama that stems from his blockage of a bill that would lay groundwork for the Keystone XL Pipeline. So nothing we haven't heard from all of the other GOP candidates.

Pushing Towards Bankruptcy

Next up is coal. Willard tells us that we have coal for the next 200 years! Well that's dandy. So why are we talking about it? "President Obama has been waging war on the entire coal industry." Oh that's right. Romney tells us that Obama is attempting to kill 2.5 million jobs and $9.4 trillion in GDP. 

Of course I'm being reasonable! What kind
of question is that?

An Unhealthy "Green" Jobs Obsession

Next up on the punching bag is the green jobs market. What a tired and worn-out punch line when it comes to energy. Romney does his best to spice it up by throwing the word "ballyhooed" in there. Definition: excessive publicity or fuss. Used in a sentence: There was much ballyhooed made over my beach house, but it only one car elevator.

Mitt Romney's Plan

This plan includes lowering regulation, fast-tracking the permit process, reforming outdated legislature regarding energy, and keeping the environment in check. One of these is not like the others. If you feel as though you are lacking a Romney Contradiction in your life, here you go. Willard openly deplores the Iran Nuclear Program and balks at the fact that they say that it is for energy purposes and orders the Iranian government not to build a nuclear warhead. Yet, he wants to build more reactors here and expand our program; for energy purposes of course.
Romney does nothing to stray from the GOP one-word mantra: DRILL. He sums up his oil plan with this: "[e]xpanding energy production on this scale would bring lower prices, greater reliability of supply, and jobs, jobs, and jobs." Great sentence. Really showing off your intelligence there.
Romney sums up his plan with ideas of sharing oil with Mexico and Canada, extracting shale gas and working to privatize the funding for "green" concepts.

The next chapter will take a lot of work and be really labor intensive: the Labor Policy!