This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.
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We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.
We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
We have more natural resources - coal, oil, wind - across the board not only to be energy independent but to be a leading exporter.
When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.
The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.
America has remained highly engaged in global affairs throughout decades of growing energy dependency, so it's hard to imagine it would disengage if its quest for energy self-sufficiency failed - especially amidst a world of heightened resource competition.
Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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