John Kerry: US Won't Stop Offshore Drilling

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In light of the BP oil spill off the coast of Louisiana, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry discusses the current status of offshore drilling as it relates to proposed energy legislation. Kerry argues for the long-term need to move towards alternate fuels such as natural gas.

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Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and co-author of a major climate bill, sits down for a conversation with attendees of The Monitor Breakfast.

Senator Kerry discusses the many reasons security, economic, health and environmental why America needs to move towards energy independence. The Senator comments on the chances of the bill passing before the midterm elections as well as on the situation in North Korea and the recent election of Senator Scott Brown in his home state of Massachusetts. - The Monitor Breakfast

John Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, and is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, he was defeated by 34 electoral votes in the 2004 presidential election by President George W. Bush. Senator Kerry is a Vietnam veteran, and was a spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War when he returned home from service. Before entering the Senate, he served as an Assistant District Attorney and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts under Michael Dukakis, who was nominated for President by the Democrats in 1988.

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[goog2k]

We can get off most fossil fuels within 20-30 years if we put a concerted effort into solar, wind, fuel cells, electric cars, algae biofuels, and new nuclear technologies.

We also need a new national smart power grid to move electricity.

We can use a carbon tax on fossil fuels to pay for it, and it'll provide millions of JOBS that can't be exported.

Europe & China are ALREADY doing this and America will lose out in future green energy technologies, if we don't.

We owe it to our grandchildren.

[TheBigBADaZz]

actually Russia is the Saudi Arabia of gas and oil and trees and cold ass winters

[pigletized]

@mirokuxsango538 It makes us sick and they don't care, we had decent leadership before and a reasonably decent society with a balance of the two parties. Now we have total crud with the exception of probably a few small timers who have their hands tied therefore are powerless. our politicians are promoted and sellout to big companies who would rather operate in other parts of the world. Individuals like us who just want to do good, work and survive, we are ignored and just a means to an end.

[mirokuxsango538]

@pigletized yep, thats true. its irritating though, cuz there are so many more important things this country needs to fix yet the Government or whoever isnt doing all the much i think. it just keeps getting worse and worse. at the beginning of the new year taxes are going to be raised like crazy, and thats just more money out of our pockets. there will be no more middle class, middle class will just merge into the poorer class while the rich get richer, meaning big companies and celebs..ugh >>

[pigletized]

@mirokuxsango538 They should have worked on this problem decades ago but some politicians being tied in with the oil companies would not as there was too much profit. Nuclear power, another option...what to do with the waste, an accident? a plane landing on a power plant. It boils down to the country being run by big business, which in a sense controlls the Gov.

[mirokuxsango538]

@pigletized you know you actually do make a point about that. the big cities would be rather difficult to power by just windmills ((but im sure with all this crazy technology coming out of America's ass left and right, we might be able to do something with the big cities in like the next decade or two lol)) but yah this country is rather unstable. its crazy

[pigletized]

@mirokuxsango538 I agree with you but my question is, how can windmills power a place like NYC or how can we quickly, efficiently and feasably convert everything to natural gas in a country that's probably so broke it's on the verge of collapse or being bought out by other countries who don't care about the prosperity of anything or the environment at all.

[bougabouga]

@mirokuxsango538 you didnt listen to what he said.

[JJO5478]

@mirokuxsango538 hahaaa tell me when you find one of those

[mirokuxsango538]

FUCK YOU JOHN KERRY!...he obviously doesnt know the risks of off shore drilling. we cant afford to continue drilling in the gulf with the chance that another rig can blow up just like the one on april 20th. everyone needs to stop drilling, its not going to last forever, it kills wildlife and destroys the environment. we need more clean energy...hell, the first car im buying is gonna be energry efficient and relies on zero oil

[lancerhammer]

Drill baby, drill some more!