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Friday, August 24, 2012

4 Roadblocks to Mitt Romney's Energy Plan

4 Roadblocks to Mitt Romney's Energy Plan

Darren Samuelsohn, Politico
Energy experts say Mitt Romney’s goal to achieve North American energy independence by 2020 would be almost impossible to reach — and anyway, there’s not much in what the Republican candidate laid out Thursday that counts as a concrete plan.Speaking in the energy production hotbed of southern New Mexico, Romney outlined goals that rely heavily on industry calls to remove federal oversight while approving the Keystone XL pipeline and opening up large swaths of U.S. coastline and public lands to more oil and natural gas drilling.http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80051.html?hp=l1
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