House Republicans live in imagined energy world, Salazar charges
WASHINGTON, DC, Apr. 24
04/24/2012
By Nick Snow
OGJ Washington Editor
US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar leveled a broadside against US House Republicans and other critics of the Obama administration’s energy policies who he said are living in a politically driven imagined energy world.
“It’s a place where up is down and left is right, where oil shale seems to be mistaken for shale oil, where record profits justify billions in subsidies, and where rising US production and falling dependence on foreign oil somehow add up to bad news,” he said in an Apr. 24 National Press Club luncheon address.
He urged them to forsake election-year politics and pass bills codifying offshore oil and gas reforms imposed by Interior following the 2010 Macondo well incident and oil spill; approve an agreement with Mexico opening “transboundary” oil reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico for development; and implement policies to create a long-term, sustained renewable energy economy, including tax incentives and a clean energy standard.
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