High gas prices underscore the need for a comprehensive energy policy that ensures energy security and energy independence for the United States.  Politicians in both parties have failed to advance such a policy and this is a tragedy for Virginia families.  It hurts at the gas pump and with our electricity bills.  As a common sense businessman who advocates common sense solutions, I want to break the ideological stalemate, end the political gamesmanship and put the American people first!

Let’s begin by acknowledging that those on the left are correct when they say we need to promote clean alternative energy sources like solar, wind and geothermal power.  Though large quantities of these energy sources at affordable prices are some number of years away let us also acknowledge and that those on the right are correct then they say we also need to develop domestic oil and natural gas production in the United States.  So let’s take the best ideas, pull them together and get the career politicians out of the way to solve this problem.

My opponent Gerry Connolly is one of the few candidates in America who has yet to release an energy plan and he also supports an increase in high gas taxes. That is the wrong direction for America and even his own party acknowledges it.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 1:14 pm and is filed under Uncategorized .