Energy
We must have an energy policy that serves America instead of OPEC. The past thirty years have been wasted by not acting to reduce America’s oil dependence. There is no further time to waste and no further excuse for delay. We must take decisive energy policy action now.
Renewable bio-fuels and plug-in hybrid or full-electric vehicles can reduce our oil consumption enough to liberate us from Middle East oil imports and, consequently, from Middle East involvement. Therefore, in Congress I will work for legislation directing and enabling the immediate and vigorous partnering of government with the failing U.S. auto industry to rapidly design and produce new electric cars, hybrids, and other fuel-efficient vehicles. I will support substantial tax credits for purchasers of such American-made vehicles, and effective subsidies for American bio-fuels production and sales infrastructure.
To increase our available energy supplies until these measures can take effect, we should drill for oil in all areas of the U.S. with known petroleum reserves and convert large numbers of conventional vehicles to run on more abundant natural gas.
I will work toward a comprehensive national public works construction program of wind and solar electric generating plants, nuclear plants, and coal gasification power plants. Such a program will provide both jobs and a core national capability to produce environmentally responsible and renewable electric power.