Mike Huckabee had this to say in what I think is a response to the gang-rape victim in Saudi Arabia:
Every time we put our credit card in the gas pump, we’re paying so that the Saudis get rich — filthy, obscenely rich, and that money then ends up going to funding madrassas,” schools “that train the terrorists,” said Huckabee. “America has allowed itself to become enslaved to Saudi oil. It’s absurd. It’s embarrassing.”
Huckabee said “I would make the United States energy independent within 10 years and tell the Saudis they can keep their oil just like they can keep their sand, that we won’t need either one of them.”
Ten years? This I gotta see. I think I’m gonna vote for Huckabee now just to see how he pulls this off. Now, I chastised John Edwars for making what appeared to be a purely election minded announcement to open the federal reserve. There was nothing to support his statement. However, this is what Huckabee has had to say in the past on energy policy:
We have to explore, we have to conserve, and we have to pursue all avenues of alternative energy: nuclear, wind, solar, hydrogen, clean coal, biodiesel, and biomass. Some will come from our farms and some will come from our laboratories. … None of us would write a check to Osama bin Laden, slip it in a Hallmark card and send it off to him. But that’s what we’re doing every time we pull into a gas station.”
Seems fairly consistent. Not sure I’m willing to write this one off as purely rhetoric.
However, it ain’t gonna happen in ten years. We do have the resources to do it, we just don’t have the resolve to do what it takes. That’s not Huckabee’s fault. However, it is Huckabee’s reality.
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Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, arabia, bin-laden, Energy Policy, huckabee, National Security, Oil Policy, Oil Supply, Politics, saudi
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