Post on National Journal's Energy Experts Blog re: Sizing Up Obama's "All of the Above" Energy Plan
A Political Catch Phrase, Not Policy
Let’s start by acknowledging that there are always discrepancies between policy aspirations and achievements. Well-intentioned plans often fail expectations, particularly when goals are ambitious.
But this is not what is at issue here. The discrepancy between the administration’s stated plan to develop “all” of our domestic energy sources and its actions to accomplish this does not suggest the plan has failed because the plan is not intended to be taken seriously in the first place. What it more clearly suggests is how politicized its energy policy has become.
Read the entire post here: http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/06/sizing-up-obamas-all-of-the-ab.php#2216343
