Romney campaign rolls out energy policy

[jaxx]

Romney campaign rolls out energy policy
By NBC's Garrett Haake

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – With just one week until Mitt Romney takes the stage at the GOP convention in Tampa, his campaign rolled out the candidate's energy policy -- one that they hope illustrates stark differences with President Obama, and which excites middle class voters looking for an economic boost.

The Romney policy, spelled out in a white paper and on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday, focuses on developing domestic fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal - in large part by shifting federal responsibilities to the states, and by expanding exploration and production nationwide. Romney will outline the policy in oil-rich New Mexico on Thursday.

Romney's plan would make states the custodian of energy production on federal lands within their borders and allow them to implement their own federally-approved leasing practices. Such a move would effectively shift responsibility for permitting, leasing and environmental regulation to states, with the hope of speeding energy development by cutting red tape.

<..> Romney's plan, in contrast, includes continued research support for alternative fuels, but would have wind and solar generation succeed or fail on their own, without government subsidies or loan guarantees, a politically unpopular position in some wind and solar producing states like Iowa and Colorado, but one Romney's advisers said they believed could be overcome by the overall economic benefits of their plan.

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OMFG NO!! He would allow the states to rape the federal lands....there go the parks, the Grand Canyon, green spaces. It's all for oil, and to hell with the environment and the green energy.

[jaxx]

Copy of the radical white paper is here, with all the lying talking points.
http://www.mittromney.com/blogs/mitts-vi...dence-2020

[SeattleGirl]

Drill baby, drill!

Who cares if you can't breathe?

[Willinois]

Once again making it official that Romney is the Koch Brother's hired hand.

And it's another flip-flop, of course.

[jaxx]

Is there one thing Willard hasn't folded on? The man has no values, no respect for the people or the country.