Brown County, TX
Republican Party

2006 STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM

• Support of the Domestic Energy Industry – Recognizing the importance of energy to the national security of the United States of America, the foundation of our National Energy Strategy must be a competitive domestic oil and gas industry. Federal tax and regulatory policies are destroying the independent sector of this industry. Regulation and rulemaking must be done on a cooperative, rather than an adversarial basis, preserving jobs and the economy while promoting environmental preservation. We encourage the Congress to:
  
  
  1. repeal all provisions of the alternative minimum tax that treat intangible drilling costs as a tax preference item;
  2. repeal the crude oil and gas severance and production taxes to help stimulate the Texas economy and enhance Texas production;
  3. stop the promulgation of unnecessary environmental legislation or regulation that causes domestic oil production to be economically not feasible or disrespects private property rights;
  4. support technological development of environmentally safe uses of nuclear, coal and biomass for our national energy needs;
  5. promote all forms of domestic energy production including ANWAR, offshore California, and the East Coast, while minimizing environmental impact.

• Alternative Energy Sources – We recognize the value of alternative energy sources and support continued private research and development of such sources, including space-based solar power.
• Energy vs. Radical Environmentalism - We support cooperative regulation and rulemaking that preserves jobs and the economy while promoting responsible conservation of our natural resources. We support policies that will clean the air and water of Texas, using technology that provides smarter and cheaper pollution control.
  
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