Here is another of Green Party candidate Scott Summers’ statements on energy. In this one, he takes on 16th district Republican incumbent Congressman Don Manzullo’s energy policy:

Congressman Manzullo’s implied energy policy:
“Bleed America Dry First”

From a recent Manzullo press release:

“We also need to pursue more domestic production of oil and gasoline. The oil is there; we just have to want to get it… Using environmentally sound practices, we can produce an estimated 1.5 million barrels of oil a day on a tiny portion of the Alaskan National Wildlife refuge…”

Hoo-boy. Manzullo just doesn’t get it.

Drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is extraordinarily counterproductive and short-sighted. But for now, I’ll spare you the global warming arguments, and the economic arguments, and the environmental arguments, and all the silly “pity the caribou” caricatures.

Saving the very last of our domestic oil now has become a national security issue.

That’s right: according to the Federal Department of Energy, the USA has less than 2% of remaining proven world oil reserves. Two lousy percent. (Derived from www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/reserves.html)

Essentially, Manzullo wants to pump it all out as fast as we possibly can. Never mind the future.

What will we — and our children, and our grandchildren — do in a couple of short decades if we have a war or a national emergency and have next to no domestic oil left?

Manzullo’s petroleum policy amounts to “Bleed America Dry First.”