Posted on 10/23/2012 10:08:32 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
One of the most important issues in this year's election is energy.
Our ongoing addiction to Mideast oil leaves us dependent on countries that are often unstable and hostile. Developing our own domestic energy resources and investing in renewable energy lessens this dependence. It also has the potential to create jobs and improve our trade deficit.
The two presidential candidates have laid out energy plans that sound similar: both President Obama and Governor Romney want to continue to develop domestic energy resources, including renewable energy, with the aim of making the U.S. less dependent on foreign oil.
But according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the president of environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance, the plans are different in several important ways. And President Obama's plan, Kennedy says, is much better for the country.
"We need to be energy independent but we can't look into the future by looking in a rearview mirror and say that we're going to do that through carbon," Kennedy says in an exclusive interview with The Daily Ticker. The idea that there's not a future for wind and solar energies in the U.S. "is just a hoax."
Kennedy gives the example of a solar plant being built in the Mojave Desert. The plant will be one of the largest power plants in the U.S. and will be completed in three years. Coal plants take 10 years to build, Kennedy points out, and nuclear power plants can take as many 30 years. The solar plant costs $3 billion a gigawatt versus $15 billion for a nuke plant, one-fifth of the cost. Alternative energy sources like solar and wind are not only environmentally-friendly policies, but they're also smarter economic choices too, Kennedy says.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Remember this is the Kennedy that wanted a carbon lawsuit system similar to the Americans with Disabilities Act. ANY lawyer, with a staw man plaintiff, could sue any utility or factory and obtain unlimited attorney fees.
It was to be a crippling cash cow.
Our problem is not the lawyers. Our problem is the law schools infested with leftists and communists. You don’t have a right to freedom in America in order to destroy America. It is not unpopular speech, these law schools AND the leftist dominated American Bar Association are using the feedom of speech etc. to prevent freedom for anyone else.
Unpopular speech denotes there is a counter of popular speech to drown out anc counter the voice of tyrany. The American Bar Association wants only tyrany.
BTW for those in rio linda, the ABA is 100% voluntary and the vast majority of attorney’s do NOT belong to that organization. It only has viability because it kisses the posteriors of judges. (btww, judges should NOT be allowed to belong or attend their conventions)
WHy is it that Jack was the only Kennedy that isn’t as dumb as a box of rocks?
Cheap energy and light regulation/government were the primary drivers of the economic powerhouse the U.S. was in the latter half of the 20th Century.
We are throwing that away with idiocy like this.
Does hot air from mouth breathers like you count as renewable energy, Bob?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.