Video: Jindal on the economy, fuel prices
posted at 2:00 pm on July 10, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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With the storm of controversy over the legislative pay raise behind him, Bobby Jindal returns to the effort for John McCain. He tries to strike a moderate tone, talking about “two extremes” on energy policy, but does the no-conservation crowd really exist in the terms he paints?
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a Republican energy proposal that didn’t offer support for R&D on developing alternative energy sources. No one, at least no one of consequence on Capitol Hill, has ever said, “Damn the environment! Let’s kill the Earth!” I’m not sure why Jindal suggests the existence of such a position, except maybe to stress the gridlock on energy production — and that’s perfectly explicable through Democratic obstructionism, which even the Democrats have apparently begun to abandon.
Otherwise, this is an effective appearance by Jindal, stressing the reasonableness of McCain’s Lexington Project and tying economic concerns directly to high energy prices. He’ll make a great surrogate in the general election, assuming he doesn’t provoke another grassroots rebellion in Louisiana first.
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Someone broke the blog.
amerpundit on July 10, 2008 at 2:04 PM
I question the timing.
labrat on July 10, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Ed, you’ve broken the internets again.
malan89 on July 10, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Looks like there’s a problem - only one item on right side of page.
corona on July 10, 2008 at 2:08 PM
It’s all displayed OK here.
RushBaby on July 10, 2008 at 2:08 PM
On O’Reilly last night, after breaking the story about Jesse’s intentions regarding Hussein’s family jewels, he had Jindal on talking about castrating rapists. What a coincidence!
Akzed on July 10, 2008 at 2:12 PM
It’s not working in Firefox 3 or IE 7 (BTW, you should try the IE Tab add-on for FF3…it’s good for seeing what your page looks like in the other major browser).
malan89 on July 10, 2008 at 2:12 PM
Ed, you broke it again. TWICE in one day must be a record!
I know, it’s hard to concentrate while thinking about the MK interview at 3:00.
BacaDog on July 10, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Not working in Safari, either.
aero on July 10, 2008 at 2:14 PM
It wasn’t me the first time today, but it is twice in two days. Fixed it now.
Ed Morrissey on July 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Not only is the Blog broken, I can’t see the Al Gore Global Warming ad either! I feel empty inside.
Hunt035 on July 10, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Working on my Safari now!
mimi1220 on July 10, 2008 at 2:16 PM
I use Ad-Blocker (I turned it off thinking that was my problem), so I don’t really know what it looks like when it isn’t broken, but isn’t there normally a vertical banner ad on the right side of the page? If there is, it was taken out with the rest of the right side posts.
Ahh, you’re right. I didn’t even think of that…must be the reason!
malan89 on July 10, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Yay! Bloggee no brokee!
aero on July 10, 2008 at 2:17 PM
(Puts thumbs up)
malan89 on July 10, 2008 at 2:17 PM
I blame Global Warming…Oh, and Bush.
Meric1837 on July 10, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Wow. I’m shocked.
There’s at least 2 people out there using Safari.
cntrlfrk on July 10, 2008 at 2:18 PM
You didn’t even need to say it. By default, EVERYTHING is Bush’s fault.
malan89 on July 10, 2008 at 2:19 PM
It’s sad that we have to bribe Democrats with goodies paid for with other people’s money in order to get them to do what they should be doing anyway.
MarkTheGreat on July 10, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Beohner was on F&F this morning too, he made the case for clean Coal to Oil production.
kirkill on July 10, 2008 at 2:22 PM
Amazing, isn’t it? Who are these people and what substances are they smoking? Silly Mac users and their craptastic browser. When they sober up, they should check this out. I’m not putting the Windows link simply because I really believe that nobody with Windows is actually stupid enough to be using the PC version of Safari. That takes fail to a whole new level.
malan89 on July 10, 2008 at 2:24 PM
You forgot that Bush is a moron. It’s all Rove and Cheney’s fault. I suggest you go back and re-read the liberal playbook again.
Vic on July 10, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Can’t Bobby just do an exorcism on the economy and fuel prices?
I mean if he works on cancer it should at least be worth a try.
MB4 on July 10, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Pickens is right about natural gas. AC using natural gas is much more efficient than electricity about 4x less cost, before the huge recent spikes up, but requires pipelines. Natural gas can also be converted to liquid transport fuel, gasoline/diesel.
Right now the Alaska pipeline is running at about half capacity, The quickest up take in supply is drilling ANWR and fill the pipeline.
Thunderhorse in the GoM is online and is increasing production as fast as possible, big prize is the price per barrel.
Nuclear power is generated and delivered at about 3-4 cents per KWh, Coal and gas varies from 10-25 cents per KWh. France is 80% nuclear, about 100% when you look at base load. The USA should be the same. We can put things on Mars but can’t build nuclear power plants. Anyone wonder why?
Louisiana has some of the best Gulf fishing around, at the offshore oil rigs.
tarpon on July 10, 2008 at 2:41 PM
>With the storm of controversy over the legislative pay raise behind him
It is?
Diogenes of Sinope on July 10, 2008 at 2:41 PM
I think Jindal is trying to polish up that tarnish a bit and regain some footing. O’Reilly last night and now this. I noticed he was a bit shy last night, when asked if some of the Katrina billions rip off was related to state or city mismanagment. Just gave it the old “there’s plenty of blame to go around”, but I guess that’s as close to the fire as he dared to come.
a capella on July 10, 2008 at 2:42 PM
“What’s this?” thought John McCain. “I can feel nothing warmer at all! That is terrible. Am I stupid? Am I a flat-earther? Am I a denier? Can you feel anything warmer Bobby J? Am I not fit to be President? That would be the most dreadful thing that could happen to me. “Oh, it is very hot!” McCain said aloud. “It has my highest approbation.” And McCain nodded in a contented way, and gazed outside, for he would not say that he felt no Global Warming. The whole entourage that he had with him looked and looked, and felt no warming, any more than the rest; but, like John McCain, they said, “It is so warm!” and counseled him to always say that he felt warm when he was out in public. “It is warm, hot even!” went from mouth to mouth. On all sides there seemed to be general warming, and John McCain gave Al Gore the title of Imperial Master of Global Warming Science.
So John McCain went in procession, and every one in the streets said, “How incomparable warm it is! What a warm day it is!” No one would let it be perceived that he could not feel warming, for that would have shown that he was not fit for his office, or was very stupid or a flat-earther or a denier. No day of John McCain’s had ever been as warm as this one.
“But I’m freezing my ass off out here!” a little child cried out at last. “Just hear what that innocent says!” said the father: and one whispered to another what the child had said. “But it is cold out here!” said the whole people at length. That touched John McCain, for it seemed to him that they were right; but the thought within himself was, “I must go through with feeling all the Global Warming. I do not dare to do otherwise unless Bobby j can do an exorcism on me or something” And so he held himself a little higher, and his aides held on tighter than ever, and proclaimed the Global Warming which did not exist at all.
MB4 on July 10, 2008 at 2:44 PM
Good god, couldn’t you have picked a slightly more flattering screencap?
MadisonConservative on July 10, 2008 at 2:44 PM
In the Politico article linked by Ed Morrissey, we see that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is no longer knee-jerk against offshore drilling. Last week it made him sick. Let’s give him a barf bag, so that he’ll vote for drilling!
It looks like the Lexington Project is starting to have results, and Obama might find himself on the wrong side of the issue relative to a Democrat Congress. Even Jim Webb (D-VA) is looking to drill, which might not endear him to Obama, but his voters might like the offshore royalties.
Drilling might be a tougher sell in the House, where the greenies have a stronger influence with the hard-left Pelosicrats. But if all the GOP challengers for Dem-held House seats run on a pro-drilling platform and paint the Democrats as obstructionists, they might have a chance at taking back the House…
Steve Z on July 10, 2008 at 2:45 PM
IE Tab is not available for MacOSX. Too bad, I would have loved to use that.
Sorry for the OT everybody
RushBaby on July 10, 2008 at 2:50 PM
You would think that the avalanche of jobs that new drilling and oil production would create might bring more people online, but it doesn’t seem to be appearing yet. If the unions were really about creating jobs for American workers, this would be the prize in that category.
Bishop on July 10, 2008 at 2:54 PM
Even if a car were marketed tomorrow that ran on water, we would still need crude oil. Everything from the by-products used in plastics, to all of the distillates like propane, butane, methane, kerosene, naptha, etc… used everyday in this country - come from crude oil.
BTW, what do “alternative energy” proponents think will power the commercial aircraft that we all use, and the military aircraft that we all depend on for our freedom?
They certainly won’t run on this corn liquor that they are forcing us to put in our cars.
DRILL! DRILL! DRILL! DRILL! DRILL!
labrat on July 10, 2008 at 2:55 PM
To Tarpon: It’s true that the generation costs of electricity are lower for nuclear power plants than for natural gas or coal-fired power plants, but nuclear power plants have much higher capital costs, which tend to discourage their construction, as well as overblown worries about their safety.
The Government needs to reduce the regulatory hurdles needed to build a nuclear plant (without compromising safety), and should allow companies building a nuclear plant to amortize the capital-cost recovery and depreciation over a longer period of time, and approve sites for nuclear-waste disposal.
McCain had it right when he said that the Navy has over 60 nuclear reactors (on ships and submarines) that have never had an accident. This needs to be repeated often!
Steve Z on July 10, 2008 at 2:55 PM
The nuclear power per KWh costs include the depreciation of the capital costs, which now run about $3-5 billion for 1200 MW. But I give you the point, costs are rising, most regulatory and licensing costs. The good news is once built the nuclear plant generation cost is near constant and not connected to conventional fuel prices. That is why there are about 33 new permits pending. The source is EIA.
Agree with the regulatory hurdles. Congress can do what they did with the border fence, tell them to go away and reduce the costs and time to get new nuclear power plants on line.
PBMR technology is also looking real good, no meltdown, no bomb material, and it is small enough to build on an assembly line. The per unit costs go way down when you build standard product with the same build crews — As opposed to custom built on-site. China has the first pilot PBMR being built now. It’s a 200 MW unit.
tarpon on July 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM
RushBaby on July 10, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Odd, considering Mac users would benefit the most from it (especially web designers). Windows folks have the option of just opening a new window with IE. You guys don’t have the option. Hmm. I wonder if a Windows user that didn’t have IE would be able to use it.
malan89 on July 10, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Well, it IS pretty much the truth. New Orleans has squandered millions but the state was the one that really screwed up by the way they mismanaged the Road Home Program.
highhopes on July 10, 2008 at 3:36 PM
I love how “the economy is in shambles” is now a fully accepted statement by conservatives. If by “shambles” they mean continuous growth, not recession, since 2002, essentially full employment, and a higher standard of living than ever before, then yes, I guess so.
Louisiana has nuclear power; one of the few things we’ve done right as a state. We need more though; I wish Bobby would take that on as a cause. There’s no reason why we should be building more plants; the extra employment is always nice, lower cost electricity would be nifty, and it’s not like we can’t sell any excess power to other states.
Laura on July 10, 2008 at 3:36 PM
This will help many people, here is a template you can use free of charge. That way you don’t have to do all of that cut and pasting.
You can cut and paste the above, that’s all you need because that is all you basically say…the rest of what you cut and paste is fluff.
right2bright on July 10, 2008 at 3:41 PM
highhopes on July 10, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Heh - remember when it was “Governor Kathleen Blanco’s Road Home Program“?
Well, she did make sure that ICF got a 25% pay raise, so I guess it wasn’t a total loss.
Laura on July 10, 2008 at 3:42 PM
Yeah, but the economy would be a lot better with more tax cuts and less gov’t intervention in energy (lower fuel prices). We’re not in a recession, but I wouldn’t say the economy is “good”. At least not as good as it could/should be.
malan89 on July 10, 2008 at 3:43 PM
I love Jindal, he does his state honor.
Dr. Manhattan on July 10, 2008 at 3:50 PM
You’re absolutely right. If we dare say a word against McCain, we’re commanding people not to vote for him at the top of our voices.
Your hyperbole is as bad as the Obamacolytes.
MadisonConservative on July 10, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Oh yeah! I had forgotten shameless bit of politicing and all the outrage from the GOP that she was taking credit for the program too!
highhopes on July 10, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Ed - he said it because it reaches the ears of people who feel that way about Republican (even if they are wrong.) Jindel wasn’t speaking to Republicans, but Rather to Hillary Clinton supporters and he was saying to them, “I’ve heard you. McCain has heard you. We understand how you feel.”
It’s that simple, and it’s a good sales technique.
Wise Golden on July 10, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Not really, when he tried to deny, and then successfully delayed, a tax cut, and when he is even now fighting tooth and nail to avoid oversight and sunshine laws for the governor’s office. But I’m hopeful he’ll get back to being the guy we elected - and if everybody could quit treating him like a rock star while he’s flipping off conservatives here in La. that’d be really helpful.
Laura on July 10, 2008 at 4:11 PM
Returning the favor here’s a template for your side-
highhopes on July 10, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Jindal seems to be popping up everywhere lately.
Are they just working the ‘recognizable’ figures, or just pandering to his supporters?
cntrlfrk on July 10, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Laura, I’m sure you meant to say liberals, unless you think the NY Times, LA Times, and Keith Olberman are conservatives. I follow the news and internet very closely and I have yet to hear a conservative say the economy is in shambles. Please name one.
orlandocajun on July 10, 2008 at 5:37 PM
Hey, I use Safari, and it works fine 99% of the time. When it doesn’t, I switch to Camino.
MrLynn on July 10, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Granted, McCain is not a conservative, but he is the GOP nominee and he said it. Allegedly conservative Fox News said it to Jindal who just accepted it without complaint or question. I said conservatives because I meant it; this is an area we have evidently just given up the fight on, just like we gave up on refuting Joe Wilson’s lies and a boatload of other things.
Laura on July 10, 2008 at 6:42 PM
McCain doubles down on his ‘economy is in shambles’ “Love” ad:
America’s in great difficulty and we are experiencing enormous economic challenges as well as others.
Mind you, I’m not saying all is sweetness and light. I just object to the “shambles” portrayal of the economy as an utter failure because it’s patently untrue. Gas prices are too high, which obviously has impacted food and every other price. But rather than hammer the Dems for that and focus on tax cuts growing the economy and the great job situation, we just concede the whole field. It’s insane.
Laura on July 10, 2008 at 6:48 PM
One problem. There are not enough rigs to drill at the moment(I know, it’s the NYT - but I didn’t search to long and it is true). We are tapped out. And it does take some time to build a drilling rig.
As far as Jindal goes, I think I may have been duped. He is more secretive than Bush. While he is doing interviews on a national stage, he REFUSES to give local interviews. Some locals. such as Moon Griffon, had him on his radio show several times while he was running. Mr. Griffon hasn’t heard from him since, neither any other local media personality.
Refer to this link to see what I am talking about. Not to mention, as many times I have seen him on the national stage, his performance is always the same. Bulleted points that he repeats over and over again with a positive attitude. Go to youtube and listen “Absolutely” over and over again.
He is pruning himself for the national stage and I do not believe he truly has this state’s better interest at mind.
lsutiger on July 10, 2008 at 8:53 PM
You see but you do not observe. You post a lot though.
MB4 on July 10, 2008 at 11:00 PM
This man is money!
PS
No problems on any links or viewing the vid.
jdsmith0021 on July 11, 2008 at 7:18 AM