Environment+-+Paul

"Oil is a powerful influence at this time. In fact, it just might well be that we are in Iraq fighting for oil."


Paul voted “Yes” on barring federal funding for the Energy Department’s “Yucca Mountain Youth Zone” Web site. This web site was designed to tell children that burying the country’s nuclear waste 90 miles from Las Vegas is safe. He believes that the government should get out of protecting oil prices and allow the free market to set prices. Paul thinks that if oil prices rise too high, then the free market will develop alternative fuels. Paul says, "Protecting individual private property rights is the best way to protect the environment - you have no right to pollute your neighbor’s property, including your neighbor’s air or water." He believes that no one has the answer on what is causing an increase in C02 levels and global warming.