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From: LindyBill4/14/2011 12:39:44 PM
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Since When Has Clean Energy Become a Public Good?
from The Enterprise Blog by Kenneth P. Green

I suppose I should be grateful to President Obama for enhancing my job security by elevating energy policy to the level of education and medical research. In his big deficit speech on April 13, the president, referring to non-entitlement/defense spending, said “What’s left, after interest on the debt, is just 12 percent for everything else. That’s 12 percent for all of our other national priorities like education and clean energy; medical research and transportation; food safety and keeping our air and water clean.”

Clean energy? Forcing costly wind and solar power onto the market is equivalent to educating the nation’s children and searching for a cure for cancer? Seems like a somewhat skewed worldview to me.

And here’s an interesting question that was raised before a House subcommittee yesterday: Since when has energy become a public good? Energy has been successfully supplied by the private sector in free markets for hundreds of years. Why, all of a sudden, is changing the way the market supplies energy a “national priority,” akin to what are considered public goods such as education, transportation infrastructure, and medical research?
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