Table of Contents:
1: MOVING FORWARD INTO THE PAST
2: TAKING THE ENERGY OUT OF COMPETITION
3: THE SHOE IS ON THE WRONG FOOT !
4: SHHH…BE CAREFUL HOW YOU TALK ABOUT IT!
5: REGULATION- THE OPPOSITE OF INNOVATION
6: FUN WITH INCONSISTENT DOUBLE NARRATIVES!
7: DOMESTIC POLICY
8: FOREIGN POLICY
MOVING FORWARD INTO THE PAST
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“Forward thinking” = Old-school
Orthodox policies that happen to be coming from a young and fresh faced figure.
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“Let innovation flourish” = burning every carbon molecule that can be found, as
quickly as possible
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“New” – Rejecting
scientific consensus and doubling down US reliance on fossil fuels
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“Outdated” / “Stuck in
the past”- = Plans to invest in solar energy and smart grids
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“New technology and innovation” =
Horizontal drilling
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“Reforming our outdated higher education
system”- see “Energy Jobs of the Future”
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“Energy jobs of the future” = The shale revolution
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“New American Century” = A hostility
to international agreements that the United States will finally have if it is
fully taken over by the only conservative political party in the world that
denies human-caused climate change is real.
·
“Old
American Century” = Republican Presidents who helped strengthen the Montreal
Protocol on the ozone layer and helped the EPA create a cap-and-trade system to
reduce acid rain causing pollutants.
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“Sweeping
energy efficiency measures”- Something that was OK to speak
in favor of while in the Florida Legislature between 2006 and 2008, but not OK
to mention when vying for Koch Brother donations in a Presidential
Primary
· "Special Tax incentives for renewable energy”- Something
that was OK to speak in favor of while in the Florida Legislature between 2006
and 2008, but not OK to mention when vying for Koch Brother donations in a
Presidential Primary
· "Programs for alternative-fuel vehicles” -
Something that was OK to speak in favor of while in the Florida Legislature
between 2006 and 2008, but not OK to mention when vying for Koch Brother
donations in a Presidential Primary
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“Leveling the
playing field” = eliminating subsidies for renewable energy while overlooking
and ignoring much bigger subsidies to fossil fuels.
·
“Innovation”
= Shutting down the federal programs that invest in and have helped develop renewable technologies. The antonym of “regulation”
·
“Competition” = Freezing
the status quo into place
·
“Restricting
consumer choice” = Any energy plan that helps renewable energy be more
accessible and affordable to a greater number of people
·
“Private sector- led development of new energy technologies” – Letting
the world’s richest people who have the biggest amount of vested interests make
the decisions on which energy technologies get deployed instead of
well-educated people who mean well and know a lot of stuff.
·
“The most
promising technologies” = Technologies that are manufactured by whichever
company gives candidates the greatest amount of campaign contributions in
exchange for promises.
·
“Government promoting
competition“ - Government giving more to industries that already have
more enabling them to outcompete entrepreneurial start-ups.
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“Government renewing its focus
on basic Research” - The only proper role government has for renewable energy
so that researchers can reach conclusions we already know about solutions we
will refuse to help implement anyway.
· “Handing out subsidies to favored companies” – Something which that other
political party does but that we don’t.
·
“Picking winners and
losers” – a term not used in reference to politicians who vote against ending
subsidies to favored fossil fuel companies that are already profitable.
·
“Providing
subsidies to prop up an uncompetitive technology” – Does not refer to an Ohio
utility asking $3 billion to bail out old nuclear and coal plants that are no longer
cost competitive. Also does not refer to a Georgia utility demanding rate
increases pay for a nuclear plant that is not even putting electricity onto the
grid.
·
“Frivolous Lawsuits” = Occurs
when environmentalists sue federal agencies or corporations for not following
rules in hopes of getting new regulations. However is does not apply to when
corporations sue environmentalists simply for saying things they don’t want the
public to be aware of.
·
“Special interest groups” – Those
who have an agenda to protecting environment and public health for their own
selfish individual gain profiting handsomely from costly new regulations.
·
“Exposing True
costs” = Something that exists when it refers to litigation on behalf of
environment and public health, but something does not exist when it refers to
the fossil fuel industry externalizing its costs onto environment and public
health.
·
“Affordable Energy” =
Turning a blind eye to the lost work days caused by coal pollution
SHHH…BE CAREFUL HOW YOU TALK ABOUT IT!
·
“Impact on global
climate” – a phrase only to be invoked when complaining how the Clean Power
Plan will not have a meaningful impact on global climate
·
“A Burden
that fall heavily on seniors, minorities, and working poor” = A phrase only to
be used on the campaign trail when trying to imply the Clean Power Plan will
cause electricity rates to skyrocket
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”Regulations to reduce carbon emissions” = A group of policy proposals to
denounce very forcefully while never making a case why reducing carbon
emissions is pointless as if there is no reason or explanation the carbon
regulations exist in the first place.
·
“Renewable Energy/
Clean Energy Jobs” =
something that can’t be acknowledged directly in campaign messages due to its
sky high popularity even among Conservatives
·
“Climate
Change / Carbon Pollution” = Something that either does not happen or is not
even worth mentioning
“Weather” =
Something to continually conflate with climate so as to directly give the climate
deniers a pretense of legitimacy. Hence any moves to tackle climate change are simply misguided attempts at
"changing the weather."
·
“"All of the above energy plan” = Something that
candidates are required to occasionally make notional gestures toward because
it is more politically savvy than mindless
iterations of “drill baby drill”.
REGULATION- THE OPPOSITE OF INNOVATION
·
“Limiting the Power of Unelected
Regulators” = A plan to staff government departments like the EPA with people
that work for the same industries they are supposed to be regulating
·
“Federal bureaucracy” =
A term used to express annoyance that protected areas are actually protected
·
“Obama’s carbon mandates” = An
illegal scheme from on-the-books Clean Air Act legislation that allows each
state the flexibility to determine how it will meet its share of CO2 emissions
reduction goals.
·
“Cutting red tape”
= Could refer to speeding up the permitting process for oil and gas pipelines
or any additional review process from any government department as long as the
exact red tape referred to is unspecified
FUN WITH INCONSISTENT DOUBLE NARRATIVES!
·
“Energy Revolution” = Lauding
the miracles of exploding domestic fossil fuel extraction while in the same
breath lamenting onerous government regulations that have simultaneously
quashed it… all while ignoring a more rapid than anyone expected global rise in
renewable energy
·
”Obama administration” – A cabal whose
job-killing environmental regulations have been strangling the energy industry
during the same time period which a
boom of new cheap oil and gas has revitalized American manufacturing and led to
well over a million jobs.
·
“Washington’s vast regulatory bureaucracy” = An entity that has suffocated the energy industry with costly regulation
at the same time the energy industry has triumphantly developed brilliant new hydraulic
fracturing innovations that happen to be exempt
from the Clean Water Act thus out of reach from federal regulators.
·
“Washington’s Crusade to stifle American Energy Production” = Refers to the
last 7 years when Roughneck oil drillers turned the Bakken shale formation into
the new wild west which the Federal government did not delay.
·
”Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama”- Political standard bearers to baselessly
accuse of opposing hydraulic fracturing technology and being radical
environmentalists no matter how strongly actual environmentalists may wish
they had actually made moves to oppose fracking.
DOMESTIC POLICY
·
“Keystone
XL Pipeline” = Would have strengthened national security and North American
energy independence by sending Canadian tar sands straight to ports on the Gulf
Coast to be exported.
·
“World’s energy superpower” =
The United States will no longer the world’s breadbasket because the Ogallala
aquifer gets poisoned by the Keystone XL pipeline we must build for national
security reasons.
·
“Optimizing America’s
resources” = Expediting approval for oil & natural gas export
infrastructure
· ”Lost Opportunity” = Subsidizing wind turbines and solar panels in order to
triple their use by 2030 at a time when we have $650 billion of oil and gas
that are doing no good just being pent up in shale rock.
·
“Acting on climate change” = Something that
we should not do because America "it is not a planet"
FOREIGN POLICY
·
“Defending US interests in global
climate talks” = Offering zero assistance to developing nations to through the
green climate fund and saying no to any and every carbon constraint
·
“International Cooperation”- Helping our vulnerable
European Allies acquire natural gas supplies from the Caspian Sea and Central
Asia
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“TTIP/ Trade agreements” =
Good, as long as there are no restrictions on US energy exports
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