http://www.mittromney.com/issues/energy
Producing more domestic energy would create good jobs and bolster local economies in a wide variety of energy-producing regions that effectively “export” their product to the rest of the country. While countless jobs are engaged in the actual energy-production process, they are a small fraction of the full workforce that benefits. For instance, before the first barrel of oil is pumped out of the ground, entire industries are hard at work creating the equipment and providing the services used in drilling, production, and the long chain of supporting industries that brings energy from inside the earth to the consumer.
The ripple effects into the non-energy sectors of the economy are commensurately important. If instead of sending hundreds of billions of dollars overseas we can send them to our own energy-rich centers, the nation as a whole will experience the economic benefits that we currently see other countries enjoying at our expense.
I would rather have heard "oil, gas, nuclear and economically viable renewables". No more subsidies for wind and solar - make it work economically or drop it.
A comprehensive energy plan may be the most important step towards creating jobs and getting the Nations economy back on the right track. If Romney can thwart the environmental whackos and reinvent the EPA and open up the Nations energy resources, we may see prosperity return to even better than what it was in the late Reagan years.
I did not see downsizing the EPA, DOE, and other millstone Federal Anti-Jobs Agencies on Romney’s to-do list.
Side Bar Issue for Mitt Romney: Get Todd Akin to withdraw from the Missouri USA Senate race, right now!!! There are a million different ways to accomplish this, Mr. Romney, without you being directly involved.
Just do it, and....get this guy off the table!!! No need to outline the reasons. They are as clear and evident as can be!!! There is a piece, I believe, that morphs the “Jack Woltz” horse’s head in the “God Father” flick, that is quite compelling. I am not advocating that extreme, but....Akin needs some common sense and reality in his thick headed skull.
He, Akin, has brought about his own failure, just as surely as Barack Hussein Obama & Joe Biden have brought about their’s!!!
We don’t need a new “Federal Government National Energy Plan”.
We need a Federal government that quits using tax regulations and other powers of the Federal government to interfere in the fuel and energy production market space in the domestic United States economy, and gets out of the way, and allows science, and organic market economics to allow companies in the energy market space to perform as best they can - whatever best they can may mean - period, end of “National Energy Policy”.
The more Romney goes into behaving like Obama, that he’s, like Obama, the national “Wizard of Oz”, and he - simply using Federal powers differently than Obama - can manipulate the economy, the more he will simply create a different breed of crony capitalists and energy markets will still perform below their potential.
When Thomas Edison electrified Manhattan, there was no “Federal Energy Plan”, and not even a “New York State Energy Plan” or even a “New York City Energy Plan” (hell - the city fathers were sure he’d fail), and he did the whole thing on his own money - no “tax incentives”, no “subsdidies”, just a belief in what he was doing.
The nation was “stronger” in Edison’s day.
This SHOULD be easy.
Drill here.
Drill now.
Build more refineries.
Mine more coal.
Build more nukes.
Build fast breeders to convert nuclear waste back into fuel.
Defund all these crap “Green” initiatives and tell them to go find real investors.