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Published: Wed, 3 Jun 2009
Description: George Allen on government intervention!
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" Well but the purpose of American energy freedom center is to get the people of America in a movement so that we. Have access to our affordable abundant resources here at home we've got to play tenacious defense. Against harmful costly counterproductive burdens on Americans such as these carbon and energy taxes. And I also think you need to be on offense and and advocates constructive positive reforms. So that our country is less vulnerable to too unstable sources of energy when we have got for the Saudi Arabia the world comes to coal and we ought to be using that for base load electricity it's it's creates jobs -- reliable. As the least costly. We ought to be looking at coal to liquid fuels circles that -- packet every plane flying at a Johannesburg South Africa as a coal. Since fuel and it. And we ought to be using our call we also empower our coastal states Virginia wants to do this to explore. For oil or gas off their coast to ensure that royalty revenues with the states we ought to be using advanced nuclear. We can learn even from the French. And as efficient safe way of handling the Golar freeze its fuel and we we do need to embrace -- just conservation -- working efficient equipment. You know building designed to save money and waste -- energy."
" should the federal government be dropping thirty billion dollars into General Motors. We pulled up a quote yesterday from President Nixon in 1970 when they nationalized. The Penn Central Railroad. A forced merger between the Pennsylvania railroad and the New York's central rarest that is just three years. These railroads will be profitable -- sell them back to private investors sounds like what they're saying about GM which we all know what -- of the railroads it's Amtrak. It loses a couple billion a year and it's illegal to compete -- it."
" Yeah well the -- not take our slightly different deal because the railroads I'm not gonna get in the history of the royal arch conservative granite ride -- ways and so forth and that's interstate commerce and and railroads are vitally important they should be run by the private sector. This situation with government voters which is what I called GM these days. Where the government's it is investing in a company that was making products -- people didn't want to five. And and lenders didn't want to lend money to assess the I don't consider the government the lender and investor of last resort now they're running at. And then there -- shutting down car dealerships. -- a car dealerships not selling vehicles they'll go out of business so their own I don't see why the government should do it then. In the midst of all their running of General Motors. Or because -- GM they're not telling us some a few years what type of vehicles double want to drive them. I think the American people can decide for themselves and for their families what kind of vehicle they want to drive that they want to get a bigger."
" V or minivan or pickup truck they have reasons sport if they want more fuel efficient vehicles will be smaller and lighter. I -- be a factor but the point is. For American energy freedom. We need to have I have got policies that empower people. George does senator George Allen thanks so much for Virginia governor senator talk about the American energy freedom seven friendship."
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