"Green Energy" Subsidy Factory — not just Cap & Trade — the Real Test for GOP Energy Chair

Capitol Confidential ^ | 11/23/2010 | Jack McHugh

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In her weekly Wall Street Journal column, Kim Strassel offers some benchmarks for who congressional Republicans’ should choose to be the next House Energy and Commerce Committee chair. Michigan Congressman Fred Upton is one of the candidates, and — as described in the other day's Michigan Capitol Confidential — this has some on the right fuming.

Strassel characterizes support for more oil drilling, coal mining and “root-and-branch” nuclear reform, plus opposition to cap-and-trade and EPA-imposed carbon restrictions, as “baseline” requirements for the new chair, not “value-added.” That is, none of the contenders should get any extra-credit for being on the right side of those issues.

Instead, the “value add-on” is support for “stepping back a federal energy apparatus that is flushing taxpayer dollars down ethanol, wind and battery projects while crowding out cheaper fuels and killing jobs,” and represents “Soviet central planning under the guise of ‘investing’ in America's future.”

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Establishment Repubs need to learn if they are not part of teh solution they are part of the problem.

Pray for America

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WRONG<WRONG<WRONG, Abolish the Dept of Energy, there is no Constitutional Authority for such an organization, especially since there only purpose is to RESTRICT ENERGY USAGE by a Free People all the while propping up our enemies by purchasing their oil.