Fossil fuel lobby designed Mitt Romney’s energy policy

there’s the glaring absence of any mention of climate change or how much more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases all that mining, transportation and fossil fuel-burning will cause, not to mention public health impact.

Renewable energy and energy-efficiency also get short shrift from Romney. Any federal support would be limited to basic research — no incentives for solar, wind or other renewable businesses…..
long-term, a Romney administration would turn the U.S. inward and send a strong message to investors and companies around the world that the country is not interested in competing in new global energy markets, which are focused on sustainability and efficiency.

Green Desert: Romney platform anything but green K Kaufmann The Desert Sun, Sept 1 2012, No sooner had Mitt Romney released his long-awaited energy policy Aug. 23 than a small army of reporters and pundits started drilling into the details and coming up with barely a kilowatt of vision or substance.

The plan is basically all about oil, coal and gas.

If elected, the Republican presidential candidate says he will transfer authority to approve energy development on public lands from the federal government to individual state governments.

In his view, decentralizing permitting will unleash new fossil fuel exploration and development because state permitting processes are faster than federal processes…..
Another uncertain premise of the Romney plan is that unleashing national oil and coal production will bring down energy prices.

In a column in the the Washington Post, writer Stephen Stromberg explains energy self-sufficiency based on fossil fuels could mean higher prices….
CO2 little thought to renewal energy?
Then there’s the glaring absence of any mention of climate change or how much more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases all that mining, transportation and fossil fuel-burning will cause, not to mention public health impact.

Renewable energy and energy-efficiency also get short shrift from Romney. Any federal support would be limited to basic research — no incentives for solar, wind or other renewable businesses…..
long-term, a Romney administration would turn the U.S. inward and send a strong message to investors and companies around the world that the country is not interested in competing in new global energy markets, which are focused on sustainability and efficiency.

The money and the talent will go wherever the cutting edge is — be it Europe, China, India or the Middle East — and not to a resort community in the Southern California desert.

But what’s most unsettling about the Romney energy plan is that it comes from an advisory committee composed solely of fossil fuel company executives and lobbyists, many of whom are also major Republican donors. An article on the Think Progress website names names, beginning with Romney’s chief energy adviser, Harold Hamm, an oil-shale billionaire whose company Continental Resources controls the most drilling acreage in North Dakota.

Oil and gas advocates also make up the main, few voices expressing support for the Romney plan….. http://www.mydesert.com/article/20120902/BUSINESS0302/209020303/Romney-platform-anything-green?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CBusiness%7Cs