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Obama’s Energy Plan by the Numbers, HUFFINGTON POST, Bill Chameides,   09/06/2012 What does the Obama administration plan for our energy future? To find out, we’ll let the words tell the story.

How do Obama’s words on energy compare to Team Romney’s?

Last week, while the Republicans were celebrating the Romney-Ryan ticket in Tampa, Florida, weposted a count-the-words analysis of their energy plan . The plan’s overall aim is to achieve energy independence for North America. The numbers told us the path to independence for the Romney team is strong on oil and gas, but not much on renewables; and climate was totally absent.

This week the Democrats are doing their thing in Charlotte, North Carolina, so we figured we’d give the Obama administration’s energy policy the same treatment.

For the Romney-Ryan analysis we used a document released days before our post. No such luxury for Obama; as best as we can tell, his most recent vision for America’s energy future is the 44-page“BLUEPRINT FOR A SECURE ENERGY FUTURE” [pdf]  from March 2011. Certainly not as fresh, but that’s what we’ve got.

In the Clouds with President Obama

Obama’s blueprint  targets three broad strategies for our energy future:

1. Developing and securing America’s energy supplies,
2. Providing consumers with choices to reduce costs and save energy, and
3. Innovating our way to a clean energy future.

But as usual (and as with the Romney plan ), the devil is in the details.

So what are the details of Obama’s plan?

OK, so just like the Romney word cloud, “energy” is front and center. No big surprise there…. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-chameides/obamas-energy-plan-by-the_b_1862497.html

September 7, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general