"I would immediately get every obstacle out of the way for our export on oil and gas. And I would begin drilling in every possible conceivable place within our territories in order to have production that we can supply Europe with if it's interrupted from Ukraine," he said on "Fox News Sunday" when asked how he would approach the crisis in Ukraine.
Since Rand Paul doesn't seem to be some Vice President of Marketing for the American Petroleum Institute, or the NGSA, I must assume he's been hired on in some fashion, considering the way he's shilling for the gas industry.
Natural gas has become the next hot commodity. The fossil fuel industry and their groupies, are touting it as America's "energy independence," and more especially, look to export said natural gas. Europe is in a precarious position with it's dependence on Russian gas, with numerous pipelines running across the Ukraine. The glut of natural gas in the US is due to the glut of fracking going on everywhere they can. If fracking was a clean industry, I wouldn't care, but it's extremely poisonous, and a fossil fuel industry that contributes substantially to greenhouse gasses leading to climate change and global warming that will have severe consequences on my children and grandchildren.
The US has the capacity to get all its energy needs through renewable sources. We no longer need fossil fuels and could systematically phase them out. Thus, I do not trust anyone who would tout such a throwback and poisonous source of energy.
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