Thursday, 7 July 2011

Michelle Bachmann, on why the US doesn't need to worry about energy issues

"Energy is "the most easy problem for America to solve," Bachmann said during her stop at the Wells Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor & Museum in Le Mars.

And there's more:  "We have 25 percent of the world's coal here. Trillions of cubic square feet of natural gas here. We just built one of the world's largest lines of natural gas here. We have got more oil in three Western states in shale oil than all of Saudi Arabia. Did you hear that on your local nightly news? Are you kidding? We've got it. I say let's go get it.

Sadly, in the US's GOP, she's far from alone in believing - and promulgating - this kind of twaddle....

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