US Trade Deficit

The US will have opportunities to export Oil, natural gas and coal to supply energy around the globe.  We need to make sure our infrastructure is in place to handle this.  We have been innovating to ensure that fracking will not affect ground water or have any other bad effects.  We are already selling water from the Great Lakes to China. 

We should have started building on the pipelines and ensuring that we have enough natural gas liquefaction in the right harbors to handle cooling for shipment to -260F.  Pipelines are full of sensors, maintained, safer and cheaper than trucking or rail and they don’t pack the highways with explosive trucks.  If our elected officials resist this, it’s because nothing they do is logical.  Every vote in Congress is purchased with bribes and extorted with special interest threats.  Voters need to thump special interests out of the way and jail them for bribery and extortion. 

The US has enough oil, natural gas and coal to be self-sufficient, but when oil prices are manipulated by OPEC to remain below $50 per barrel, our oil margins on fracking sites disappear. 

The US needs to finally declare carbon capture unnecessary and put global warming and climate change scams in the junk science dumpster.  We need to return our coal-fired and hydro electrical power plants back in service.  We should also be free to build nuclear and hydro with its water reservoirs based on cost.  We can allow wind, solar and thermal, but not for power companies, because it would increase consumer costs.  These should be available to individual farmers and ranchers at their own cost.

Subsidies should be removed from all forms of energy production including ethanol and other substitutes or additives. Ethanol should be removed from gasoline because it damages engine parts and lowers fuel efficiency.

The US corporate tax should be lowered to 15% as soon as possible to level the playing field so that manufacturing companies can return operations to the US. Companies need assurances that US energy costs will be reasonable and unnecessary regulations will be repealed. Our manufacturing capability is required to bolster our economy and our ability to maintain a reliable, secure domestic military equipment production capability. 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader