Romney: Open Oil Fields in Alaska for Domestic Drilling

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney gave a presentation in Muscatine on Thursday that included a video display with graphs, statistics, and bullet points. His event was billed as a talk on his "Strategy for a Stronger America: Strengthening America's Economy." He talked and explained slides that gave statistical projections on taxes, immigration, and U.S. oil dependence.

During a question and answer period, one man from the audience asked about drilling for oil in domestic territories, particularly in Alaska.

Romney said he thinks drilling in "Alaska is the easiest, the people of the state want us to drill there and the nation wants to drill there. Let's do it. But in this case the Democrats are listening to extreme environmentalists that say no."

He went on to talk about energy from nuclear power and how the U.S. is "beholden to people like Putin, Ahmadinejad and Chavez."

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[SinbliminalSinSation]

..most of our politicians are big business and regulate laws that best benefit them Prime example is --GUESS WHO-->Peolosi (biggest importer of tuna) with her foreign trade agreements not to mention her getting kickbacks from imported oil that is OUR OIL look at china drilling 35 miles off the Florida coastline for YEARS . WOW its amazing what the puppet media WON"t TELL you!

[SinbliminalSinSation]

@SlipKnot7480 you really want to be shocked how ignorant they really are...try having a debate with one they have NO idea why they support what they do, Most of them are puppets just repeating the same bs over and over even if you prove a very valid point with them that is based off of common sense facts they are still dumbfounded and go into a blank look and start drooling on themselves.

[loreeth]

Mitt, please go away - idiot!

[2112beware]

I am hoping so much that Mccain asks him to be Vice President..McCain needs him. He is very Smart and will do what is right for us.

[450hpCOBRA]

It's really too bad he dropped out of the running. He makes a lot of sense, and could have turned our failing economy around.

[musicalredhead]

YES, THANK YOU!

[musicalredhead]

OK, calm down, conspiracy theorist. Live isn't as bad as you think...

[musicalredhead]

But we're talking for vehicles mainly, for which nuclear power is not the best chice. :) What we need to put more money into is the devolpment of a promising, but not yet successful, resources, such as Hydrogen Power Cells.

[musicalredhead]

I'm an Independent, more Republican than Demo, and I think that's going a little too far. Find a comprimising medium, otherwise you'll never make change.

[HuckabeeVoter]

We need the oil. We have the oil. Let's use the oil. Who cares what the enviormentalists think. Not I