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I currently have a vested interest in issues such as this. You see, the company that employes me pays me to drive their trucks loaded with the very stuff President Obama wants to ban. Of course the reason they pay me isn’t simply because they like me, but because I provide for them a service from which they profit. It’s the American way… or so it seems it was.

The Great Spain Energy Plan by Alex Adrianson, The Heritage Foundation Spain’s Renewable Energy Boondoggle A funny thing about President Barack Obama’s suggestion that we look to Spain for guidance on energy policy: Spain’s experience reveals that green energy is a job killer, not a job creator. In January, President Obama urged a rally in Ohio: “Think of what’s happening in countries like Spain, Germany and Japan, where they’re making real investments in renewable energy. They’re surging ahead of us, poised to take the lead in these new industries.” But Gabriel Calzado of Spain’s Rey Juan Carlos University calculates that...