Topics in the News: Alternative Energy
Nikki Haley on Energy & Oil
: Jul 30, 2023
There can be solar and wind, but you can't do it tomorrow
Let's talk about what we want to do if we want to focus on energy. What we don't want to do is go hat in hand to Saudi Arabia or get dirty oil from Iran or Venezuela. What we do want to do is look at what does transitioning look like. You can't do it
tomorrow, but what you can do is transition and that's where we say that let's do an all-of-the-above energy approach. Yes, there can be solar. Yes, there can be wind, but you can't do it tomorrow.
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Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2023 Presidential primary hopefuls
Tim Scott on Budget & Economy
: May 22, 2023
Rein in the left's out-of-control spending, cut taxes
- Made in America agenda that ramps up research and development, reclaims supply chains, and re-energizes our manufacturing base with Opportunity Zones 2.0.
- Unleash American energy and innovation by removing
burdensome red tape, cutting taxes, and expanding an all-of-the-above energy approach.
- Live within our means, by reining in the left's out-of-control spending, ending earmarks and political favors, and making tax cuts permanent.
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Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website VoteTimScott.com
Doug Burgum on Energy & Oil
: Jan 3, 2023
North Dakota takes an all-of-the-above approach
North Dakota continues to successfully engage an all-of-the-above approach that harnesses oil, gas, coal, hydroelectric, renewable fuels, wind and solar. Entrepreneur Harold Hamm led the charge to lift America's 40-yearold ban on exporting
U.S. crude oil in 2015. Selling more clean U.S. energy to our friends and allies, versus forcing them to buy dirty energy from our adversaries, is the single most powerful change the U.S. could make today to drive American strength up.
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Source: 2023 State of the State Address to the N.D. legislature
Joe Biden on Energy & Oil
: Oct 15, 2020
I pushed the cost of wind & solar below cost of oil
The future rests in renewable energy. I managed the Recovery Act and I was able to invest billions of dollars into bringing down the cost per BTU of wind and solar. So now it's cheaper than coal, is cheaper than oil right now, and it has great,
great promise. And it's also the fastest growing employer in the energy industry.We should be moving toward finding the new technologies that are going to be able to deal with carbon capture.
Ultimately, it's a transition we moved from, to a net zero emission of carbon that we're still going to be able to use if we find the right technology.
I think we're going to be able to move in a direction where by the year 2035, we'll be able to have net zero emissions of carbon from the creation of energy so we can move it by dealing with those.
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Source: Second 2020 Presidential Debate/ABC Town Hall Philadelphia
Joe Biden on Energy & Oil
: Feb 19, 2020
Invest in batteries to transmit solar power
The existential threat humanity faces is global warming. I went out to a facility where you have one of the largest solar panel arrays in the world. And when the fourth stage is completed, it will be able to take care of 60,000 homes for every single
bit of their needs.And what I would do is, number one, work on providing the $47 billion we have for tech and for making sure we find answers--to find a way to transmit that wind and solar energy across the network in the United States.
Invest in battery technology.
I would immediately reinstate all of the elimination of what Trump has eliminated in terms of the EPA. I would secondly make sure that we had 500,000 new charging stations in every new highway we built or repaired.
I would make sure that we once again made sure that we got the mileage standards back up which would have saved over 12 billion barrels of oil. And I would invest in rail. Rail can take millions of cars off the road if we have high-speed rail.
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Source: MSNBC's 9th Democrat primary debate, in Las Vegas
Bernie Sanders on Energy & Oil
: Sep 4, 2019
Government loans to help people erect solar panels
My goal is to see a massive increase in the use of wind and solar, and we will help people be able to afford to pay for it. We're going to make it possible to lend those people that money to put the solar up on their roofs. They will not be paying a
nickel more than they're currently paying for electricity, and then they're going to have free electric after that. That is a sane approach which also creates jobs. Those are the kinds of things that we want to do for small business and ho
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Source: Climate Crisis Town Hall (CNN 2019 Democratic primary)
Bernie Sanders on Energy & Oil
: Apr 22, 2019
End fossil fuel; move toward wind and solar
We have got to take on the fossil fuel industry and make it very clear that we are moving away from fossil fuel and not blaming people who work in the coal or gas or oil industry. All they are trying to do is feed their families.
We can move aggressively toward wind and solar. We have got to rethink our transportation system and build the kind of state-of-the-art rail system that our country needs which will help us transport people and cargo in a much more nonpolluting way.
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Source: CNN Town Hall 2020: 5 candidates back-to-back
Tulsi Gabbard on Energy & Oil
: Apr 18, 2019
OFF Fossil Fuels: retrofit homes & fund new technology
Q: Do you support a federal carbon tax?Gabbard: My OFF Fossil Fuels Act (H.R. 3671) would take the fossil-fuel tax credits that are repealed and create the OFF Fossil Fuels Fund, including low-income weatherization and retrofit assistance, electric
vehicle rebate program for consumers, extension of tax credits for wind and solar energy, and environmental justice provisions for a clean energy future.
Q: Do you support increasing federal funding for clean-energy research?
Gabbard: My OFF
Fossil Fuels Act states that we must invest in early-stage proof-of-concept technologies. The U.S. National Laboratories are centers of basic scientific research already working on technology programs such as grid modernization and security, battery
storage, solar and wind technology efficiency. Focus on investing in early-stage breakthrough energy technologies. Funding these technologies could lead to innovations that could dramatically change how energy is generated, stored and distributed."
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Source: 2019 "Meet the Candidates" (NY Times.com)
Bernie Sanders on Energy & Oil
: Feb 25, 2019
Transform our energy system away from fossil fuel
We are going to have to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. We know how to do that. The technology is there. That technology will only improve. Here's the other good news when we make that
transformation: We're going to create millions of good-paying jobs weatherizing our homes, changing our transportation system, moving aggressively into wind and solar and other sustainable energies.
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Source: CNN Town Hall on 2020 Democratic presidential primary
Mike Pence on Energy & Oil
: Jan 13, 2015
All-of-the-above energy strategy instead of EPA over-reach
Because low-cost energy is vital to our economy, we need an all-of-the-above energy strategy, including energy efficiency.
But know this, Indiana is a pro-coal state, and we must continue to oppose the overreaching schemes of the EPA until we bring this war on coal to an end.
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Source: State of the State address to 2015 Indiana Legislature
Tim Scott on Energy & Oil
: Sep 30, 2014
No subsidies for wind and solar
Question topic: Governments should pay to develop wind and solar energy solutions when these are not economically feasible.
Scott: Disagree
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Source: Faith2Action iVoterGuide on 2014 South Carolina Senate race
Mike Pence on Social Security
: Apr 9, 2014
Cutting Social Security should be on the table
Pence spent 12 years in Congress as a leading fiscal conservative. During his tenure he backed efforts to reform Social Security. In 2010, when asked whether he'd support making cuts to Social Security, Pence told CNN, "I think everything has to be on
the table." When asked if he'd raise the retirement age, he said, "I'm an all-of-the-above guy. We need look at everything on the menu." At the time, he said any reforms should just affect Americans under the age of 40.
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Source: CNN.com on 2016 Veepstakes, "Pence on Social Security"
Joe Biden on Energy & Oil
: Oct 2, 2008
Obama believes in investing in alternative energy
BIDEN: We have 3 percent of the world's oil reserves. We consume 25% of the oil. John has voted 20 times in the last decade-and-a-half against funding alternative energy sources, clean energy sources, wind, solar, biofuels. Obama believes by
investing in clean coal and safe nuclear, we can not only create jobs in wind and solar here, we can export it.PALIN: I was the first governor to form a climate change sub-cabinet to start dealing with the impacts. We've got to reduce emissions. John
McCain is right there with an "all of the above" approach to deal with climate change impacts. As we rely more on other countries that don't care as much about the climate as we do, we're allowing them to produce and to emit and even pollute more than
America would ever stand for. It's all the more reason that we have an "all of the above" approach, tapping into alternative sources of energy and conserving fuel, conserving our petroleum products and our hydrocarbons so that we can clean up this planet
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Source: 2008 Vice Presidential debate against Sarah Palin
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