President after president has said energy independence is critical. But then you have the EPA tasked to go after American companies producing coal and penalizing them. You can't have it both ways.
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Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
We must develop energy independence; we must Make It In America.
First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.
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.
The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix. The consequences are higher energy prices for families and a contraction of our nation's economic growth.
Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.
Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.
Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.
We have more natural resources - coal, oil, wind - across the board not only to be energy independent but to be a leading exporter.
The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.