{"id":582,"date":"2007-06-10T19:15:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T00:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=582"},"modified":"2007-06-10T19:15:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T00:15:57","slug":"ok-ron-paul-not-so-much-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/06\/10\/ok-ron-paul-not-so-much-my-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, Ron Paul not so much my friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRon Paul was pretty cool on the Daily Show as career Republicans go. If nothing else he seems straightforward and believable. The devil’s in the details, however, and Paul’s the sole sponsor of a new bill that smells all wrong to me. H.R. 2415<\/a>, the Affordable Gas Price Act (full text from Thomas<\/a>) aims to reduce gas prices at pretty much any cost. That’s a problem for me, as I think we burn way too much fuel here in the U.S., and making it cheaper just ain’t gonna help.<\/p>\n

Goals such as these just seem like a really bad idea to me:<\/p>\n

Sec. 3. Termination of restrictions on oil and natural gas development on Federal lands.
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\n Sec. 4. Limitation of suits under National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
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\n Sec. 6. Suspension of fuel taxes on highway motor fuels when weekly United States retail gasoline prices exceed benchmark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This sort of silliness only makes any<\/em> sense in a world where you refuse to acknowledge any<\/em> of the evidence on climate change. Pretty much as bad as raising your hand at a debate as a creationist in my book. I wasn’t particularly expecting to vote for a Republican in ’08, and that’s one more I can cross off my list.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t

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