User talk:Capps2012

We are on the race to the bottom on the issue of energy. Annapolis, with its lack of wisdom, has decided not to allow drilling for natural gas in western Maryland; never mind the funds that the state could bring in to help with the bloated budget. Yet another missed opportunity for more badly needed jobs within the state.

Today I went to the American Legion post 277 in Pasadena. I was speaking to a post member there and he informed me that he has a friend in Oklahoma that owns four oil wells. The federal government pays him not to drill. So much for "energy independence"!

The far left is on a quest to drive energy prices up, with the brunt of the pain dealt to the middle class and the poor in the country. Yet these same folks in Washington have the nerve to send 1$ billion to Brazil to drill for new oil, which in return they will send the oil to China. (China, you know the place where a lot of our manufacturing companies now make the once American made goods.) The energy policy of wind mills and solar panels is a good form of energy, but it is not enough to cover the needs of the American People.

America now sends $498 billion overseas every year to buy the oil we need from foreign countries with hostile intent towards the United States. All of that when we are quite capable of producing our own oil here at home, thus creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs, and keeping the $1/2 trillion here at home!

The best "economic stimulus" program the federal government could enact is for America to keep the $1/2 trillion we waste every year by exporting not only the $500 billion per year that we spend on foreign oil, but also exporting hundreds of thousands of American jobs.

It's time to stop buying foreign oil from countries who are adversaries to the American way of life! We need to start employing American workers and producing the oil we need here in the USA

I believe we need to do the following:

When a lease is granted, the federal government issues the permits for energy exploration within 90 days of the lease. The companies must start to produce the energy as soon as they possibly can. We need to have tax credits to all energy production, produced in America and by American workers. Solar, oil refineries, clean coal, thermal energy as well as safe nuclear energy, must be the key to ensure our nation's future energy needs are met.

William T Capps (R) Maryland