You did great post!
Re: your post awhile back on the Pubbies not exploiting the energy issue for all the ways the Dems have screwed it up, agreed.
I’m not quite sure how to frame it, but I can see a ‘global responsibility’ pitch appealing to moderates. that we’ve been irresponsible in so limiting and outsourcing energy production, when there’s no doubt we’d do it with more environmental sensitivity than many other nations, we are no longer generating ‘our fair share’ even though we’ve the capacity, and even that we’re directly to blame for food crises in the third world if we don’t step up the way we should.
Further good news we can use to couch it in is how much the technology has advanced in terms of protecting the environment over the past few decades.
One last good hit can be how much hamstringing our economy re: energy may not hurt those here in the US who are already comfortable, but that it will put a real crimp on the level of health care, for example, that our economy will effectively be able to support for the less fortunate here at home.