Romney on Climate Change
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Hurricane Sandy has many of my left-of-center friends talking about climate change and wondering how anyone concerned about it can consider voting for Mitt Romney for president. An answer, from a USA Today news article:

He pushed to make homes and businesses more energy efficient. He offered government incentives for renewable power and, early in his administration, tried to tackle climate change with fees on excessive corporate emitters of greenhouse gases.

President Obama? Well, it may sound like him, but it's GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts -- a blue state with a Democratic-led legislature -- from 2003 to 2007.

The two men have fairly similar governing records on energy and environmental issues....

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Romney on Climate Change
futureofcapitalism.com

Hurricane Sandy has many of my left-of-center friends talking about climate change and wondering how anyone concerned about it can consider voting for Mitt Romney for president. An answer, from a USA Today news article:

He pushed to make homes and businesses more energy efficient. He offered government incentives for renewable power and, early in his administration, tried to tackle climate change with fees on excessive corporate emitters of greenhouse gases.

President Obama? Well, it may sound like him, but it's GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts -- a blue state with a Democratic-led legislature -- from 2003 to 2007.

The two men have fairly similar governing records on energy and environmental issues....

Read More...