07/27/2010
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"I find it perplexing that DOE would take this position when the entire purpose of these loan guarantee programs is to spur domestic development and job creation."
"it will be more than 300,000 jobs and $147 billion in tax revenue."
"the perception and I think the correct perception is that all we have heard is knee jerk reactions and excuses, not anything based on sound science or economics."
"But the blanket moratorium on all deepwater drilling does nothing to advance that goal, and in fact the de facto shallow water moratorium has even less of a nexus to the original problem."