Paul on the Record

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Enviros may roll their eyes at a candidate who dismisses the U.S. EPA as feckless and disposable, who believes all public lands should be privately owned, and whose remedy for an ailing planet is "a free-market system and a lot less government." But Ron Paul, the quixotic libertarian U.S. rep from Texas, has a cult following online second only to Barack Obama's, and has won unexpected attention in the GOP presidential debates with his provocative ideas.

Some of those ideas arguably have environmental merit. Paul is known for his zealous opposition to the Iraq war, which he duly notes causes pollution and the "burning of fuel for no good purpose." He wants to yank all subsidies and R&D funding from the energy sector, which many believe would benefit the growth of renewables. A cyclist himself, he has cosponsored bills that would offer tax breaks to Americans who commute by bicycle and use public transportation. Still, his libertarian presidency would, among other things, allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, boost the use of coal, and embrace nuclear power. Moreover, it wouldn't do diddly about global warming because, Paul reasons, "we're not going to be very good at regulating the weather."

I called Paul up on the campaign trail in Iowa to get the skinny on how the environment figures into his small-government agenda.

For more info on his platform and record, check out Grist's Paul fact sheet.
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http://www.grist.org/cgi-bin/printthis.pl?uri=/feature/2007/10/16/paul/index.html

Ron Paul--our best last hope

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Briant, Oct 16, 2007 IP

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who believes all public lands should be privately owned
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One more nail in his coffin.

allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, boost the use of coal, and embrace nuclear power
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So he's basically all for whoring out the earth in any way possible to get energy BUT he wants to encourage people not to actually use it.

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KalvinB said: ↑

So he's basically all for whoring out the earth in any way possible to get energy BUT he wants to encourage people not to actually use it.
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Well, he would rather we drill in our own country than invade another.

It's this crazy idea about property rights and morals. Weird, hunh?

guerilla, Oct 16, 2007 IP

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