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Obama's energy plan is unrealistic

Walter Kopycinski Waterford

Publication: The Day

Published 07/14/2012 12:00 AM
Updated 07/13/2012 03:28 PM

Green energy is not ready to replace oil, natural gas, or nuclear power. Green energy is just not cost effective.

Taxpayers are paying subsides of billions dollars for green energy. These dollars are going to people who are friendly to the administration.

The waste material in making these products is polluting the land and the windmills are killing thousands of birds. Our natural resources can keep our country going for at least another 200 years and be cost effective. This government's policies will bankrupt the coal industry and many more union jobs will be lost.

Oil produces the most electricity and the president has chosen not to support oil production in this country.

President Obama's Energy Advisory Board includes not one executive from natural gas, coal, nuclear or oil. Ninety-two percent of all energy comes from these sources.

Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar has said he would oppose all offshore drilling even if gasoline went up to $10 a gallon. Salazar fought a judge's order to open drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Presidents Obama would not allow other countries to participate in the clean-up who had the equipment to do the job. Why?

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