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Touting Oil And Coal, Romney Calls Obama’s Clean Energy Policies ‘Out Of Date’ | As ThinkProgress has noted, Mitt Romney’s energy plan embraces a coal and oil future, while he disparages green jobs. Today, in a campaign speech at a Colorado oil field, Romney said, “His ideas about energy are simply out of date. We’re applying policies from the past that just don’t work.” But Romney wasn’t pointing out subsidies for Big Oil that are 100 years old — he has said he’s fine with those. He was knocking green jobs in wind and solar yet again, even though 64,000 green jobs exist in his home state alone.
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In a way he has a point – we should have done this twenty-five years ago, or even ten years ago. However, I’m not defending Romney. He’s the one who’s out-of-date.
It’s down to the Big Lie. Nothing more, nothing less.
Republican politicians will say anything to promote the fossil fuel industry even if some in their party actually do want clean renewable energy. The politicians are completely against clean because that filthy industry is what they need to protect. They do not care about the environment and are willing to gut all environmental regulations to support oil and coal. They are not interested in getting Americans back to work and will gladly destroy the clean energy industry in order to further the interests of fossil fuels. It is all about protecting business as usual. This is not at all surprising since they don’t even try to hide it.
I know, after participating in an RMI live chat session, that the President has his copy of Reinventing Fire, and that the study is making the rounds on Capitol Hill. How Romney can ignore it’s clear pro-business stance is beyond me, but he lives in upside-down land.
The Tea Party really is a cancer on this country.