Bush argued that companies like Rice face too many regulations, something he says holds back energy growth.
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And in unveiling an energy policy that promotes natural gas development, he meant that literally.
Environmental groups were not impressed by Bush’s proposals.
In his speech, Bush also promised that he would approve the almost 1,200-mile Keystone XL pipeline, which the Obama administration has been studying for years.
He also pledged to repeal the ban on oil and liquid natural gas exports from the United States and immediately approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline from Canada’s tar sands to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
“There’s gas right underneath where we are ready to be exported”, he said. But reversing the 40-year-old crude export ban is also popular with Republicans.
Presidential candidate Jeb Bush unveiled his energy plan Tuesday.
These are all positions heralded by conservative Republicans and ideas that would boost companies involved in the production or transportation of resources such as oil and natural gas.
Mr. Bush might well envy such success: In a crowded Republican field, polls have shown him struggling to break out of single-digit support.
“His people were, like, ‘Boo, motherf*cker – how dare you?'” Yard said.
Let’s be clear about one thing: Bush shouldn’t be criticized for a “gaffe”, that common and tiresome genre of campaign microcontroversy in which a candidate says something in a way he wishes he hadn’t and his opponents and the media act as though he has revealed the true and hidden darkness within his soul. Its approval, he said, would increase gross domestic product by over $3 billion and support 42,000 jobs while the pipeline is under construction. Bush’s top energy policy advisors include Marcus Peacock and Jeff Kupfer, both of whom served under George W. Bush as an associate director for natural resource programs at the Office of Management and Budget and deputy secretary at the US Department of Energy, respectively. “I am suggesting commonsense 21st century regulation”, he said.
Governor Bush is the only candidate in the race for President that has a plan to bring a much needed structural reset between the relationship of the federal government and states to make Washington less consequential in our lives.
“Even more extreme, Hillary Clinton has indicated she would flatly prohibit drilling off the northern coast of Alaska”, the post will read.
Bush’s energy plan involves lifting the current ban on crude oil exports to non-free trade countries, which he says would allow companies such as those owned by his donors to create new jobs and lower retail gasoline prices in two years.
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“You can always find balance between the environmental well-being and American entrepreneurialism and American exceptionalism”, Bush said. The cost of climate change, which congressional Republicans do not want to think about, is widely expected to be more than the cost of clean energy.
