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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Actually Newt Gingrich and Michelle Bachman have both called for the EPA to be abolished, McCain and the GOP's 'less extreme' position is that it be 'merged' into the department of Energy and its funding cut to minimal amounts, thus effectively killing it.
All the while both Canada and Germany continue to do better economically despite having generally tougher regulations than the US, or, God forbid, no oil at all to explore for!.
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Ron Paul also called for the EPA to be disbanded.
When the Department of the Interior is tasked to look after drilling permits in the Gulf, than they should be tasked to do the same thing in Alaska. Instead the EPA has been increasingly given power to shutdown drilling sites, and impose ridiculous regulations, like air permits which were obviously stupid considering the drilling site was 70 miles from the nearest town. The result is far too much red tape for companies to deal with, so they go elsewhere.
Does Canada have more regulations? The American people have been trying to pin us as a socialist paradise for years, but I don't think its true. We just have more common sense, and we don't create another Department of 'X' whenever something goes wrong.