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The U.S. Must Choose Ethical Energy Over Conflict Energy

Climate Depot Editorial

On October 3, during the first presidential debate with President Barack Obama, Republican nominee Mitt Romney declared his intention to make “North America energy independent.”

Romney continued: “Energy is critical, and the president pointed out correctly that production of oil and gas in the U.S. is up. But not due to his policies. In spite of his policies. Mr. President, all of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land, not on government land. On government land, your administration has cut the number of permits and license in half. If I’m president, I’ll double them. And also get the — the oil from offshore and Alaska. And I’ll bring that pipeline in from Canada.

And by the way, I like coal. I’m going to make sure we continue to burn clean coal. People in the coal industry feel like it’s getting crushed by your policies. I want to get America and North America energy independent, so we can create those jobs.”

Climate Depot Response: Gov. Romney’s carbon based energy goals are the moral and ethical choice for the United States. Extracting domestic energy from the U.S. and other parts of North America where human rights and environmental protection are markedly better than many other energy choices – is the ethical choice.

Limiting North American drilling, mining, pipelines and energy extraction can only mean more reliance on conflict energy from such places as the Middle East, Venezuela and China, where human rights and environmental protection may be less than desirable. See: Analysis: Obama Policies Making US More Dependent on Persian Gulf Oil

Not only is the U.S. importing carbon-based energy from countries with questionable human rights and environmental records — ie. conflict energy, but now we are also importing so-called renewable energy from these countries.

See: Obama Administration Caught Redistributing Stimulus Dollars to Chinese Solar Firms

& EPA Gives Grants To China While it Closes U.S. Coal Plants: Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) Questions EPA About Grants to China for Coal Production

America needs to choose ethical energy – both carbon based and so-called renewables from North America. It is long past the time that the U.S. continued to have a heavy reliance on conflict energy.

Related Links:

Obama Administration Caught Redistributing Stimulus Dollars to Chinese Solar Firms‘The Obama admin. used stimulus dollars to purchase Chinese solar panels – a clear violation of [fed stimulus bill].’

Watch Now: EPA Gives Grants To China While it Closes U.S. Coal Plants: Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) Questions EPA About Grants to China for Coal Production — Rep. Griffith: ‘I don’t understand why we are giving them grants to help them in their industries…We are taking money out of the pockets of the mines in U.S. while we are giving money to help the Chinese mines figure out their problems’

‘North American Shale Gas Resources Estimated at 3.3 Quadrillion Cubic Feet’: ‘Separate studies…have moved tally of N. American potential to a new plateau, beyond trillions to 3.3 quadrillion’

Study finds little environmental impact from Canadian oil sands: The ‘toxins well downstream of the oil sands come from the environment, not big steel stacks…’‘…a finding that suggests the industrial impact on the environment is largely local, rather than broadly regional’ – ‘Perhaps most intriguing: They found levels of polycyclic aromatic compounds, which can cause cataracts, organ damage and cancer in humans, were at their lowest between 1975 and 1995, a period of oil-sands growth’

Walter Russell Mead: ‘GOP Dropping the Ball on Energy Debate?’ — ‘It’s perhaps understandable, given [Obama’s] record, that the president doesn’t want to make the energy revolution an issue in this campaign. If that’s true, it’s all the more reason his opponent should do more to push this debate onto the front pages’

Energy Department Touts Solar Power That Generates 0.14% of Electricity — ‘The U.S. Dept of Energy this week touted the growth of solar power, complete with an impressive chart that boasts, “Solar Generation Has a Bright Future.” Yet a closer look at solar overall role reveals that it represented just 0.14% of total electric power generated and consumed in June’

Analysis: Obama Policies Making US More Dependent on Persian Gulf Oil — ‘While we have reduced our dependence on imports, we are getting more dependent on oil imports from the Persian Gulf, particularly Saudi Arabia. During the first 5 months of this year, oil imports from the Persian Gulf increased by 33% compared to the first 5 months of 2011’

Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Fox News on Obama/EPA War on Coal: ‘U.S. has 3 & half times the coal reserves as we do shale gas. We have 27% of world’s coal reserves’Since 1970s the pollutants from coal have been reduced 90% due to technology & modernization. Since 1970s we have radically improved our air & water quality while at the same time had massive increases in population & economic growth. The states that use the most coal have the cheapest electricity costs. The next war will be on natural gas fracking, once they achieve shutting down coal plants. They go after energy that works’

Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Canadian TV: Screw Earth Hour! ‘Why are we celebrating the Dark Ages? Why are we celebrating what N. Korea has already achieved?!’ — Morano: ‘People should abhor Earth Hour. Carbon based energy is one of the greatest liberators of mankind in the history of our planet…One of the most moral [energy] choices we have is coal fired power in the world today…Both solar & wind have competed with fossil based fuels & they had their rear ends kicked & no amount of subsidies or mandates is going change that’

‘Earth Hour?!’ Celebrate Coal not Candles: ‘It was coal that produced clean electric power which cleared the smog produced by dirty combustion & open fires in big cities like London and Pittsburgh’ — ‘It was coal that saved the forests being felled to fuel the first steam engines and produce charcoal for the first iron smelters. It was coal that powered the light bulbs and saved the whales being slaughtered for whale oil lamps. Without coal, we would be back in the dark days of candles, wood stoves, chip heaters, open fires, smoky cities, hills bare of trees and streets knee deep in horse manure’

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