GOP Candidates Disappoint
Posted on August 9, 2007
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When it comes to doing something about our reliance on greenhouse- gas producing fossil fuels, we didn’t hear much from the Republican Presidential candidates on Sunday during their debate in Iowa. The closest we got was a couple of “end our dependence on foreign oil” comments from Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. As SmartPower President Brian Keane put it, ““It is truly unacceptable that none of these candidates offered any plans for energy independence or even recognized the fact that the American public is concerned about global warming and climate change.”
When you lay out all the presidential candidates, Democratic and Republican, it becomes clear that, in general, it’s the Ds who are talking about moving to clean energy and doing something about climate change while the Rs are doing their best to avoid the issue. If you look at this table from the League of Conservation Voters, for example, the words that appear most often after the Repbulican candidates are “no articulated position” and “oppose.”
It’s too bad–because climate change is distinctly non-partisan. A warming planet doesn’t just effect one party. There is no good reason why making the transition to clean energy and improving energy efficiency should be a Democratic issue–it’s a human issue and one we all are concerned about.
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[...] The Republicans are digging their own grave with their fear based blindness to renewable energy. Here’s what the SmartPower Blog has to say about the whole thing… When it comes to doing something about our reliance on greenhouse- gas producing fossil fuels, we didn’t hear much from the Republican Presidential candidates on Sunday during their debate in Iowa. The closest we got was a couple of “end our dependence on foreign oilâ€? comments from Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. As SmartPower President Brian Keane put it, ““It is truly unacceptable that none of these candidates offered any plans for energy independence or even recognized the fact that the American public is concerned about global warming and climate change.â€? [...]