Rubio (R-Sippy) Wants USA! USA! As #1 In Renewables, W. Flat Tax - Oh, And Inhofe Endorsed Him
At an event in New Hampshire Tuesday evening, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio appeared to take a different tack from the usual party line when asked about how to make more clean energy jobs in America. “Well first, I would say to you that I want us to lead the world in everything,” he said. “Let’s be number one in wind, and number one in solar, and number one in biofuels, and number one in renewables, number one in energy efficiency. Let’s lead in all of these things.”
If Rubio wants the United States to lead the world in renewable energy, how does he propose to get us there? “I’m not going to interfere in the marketplace,” he said at the New Hampshire event. “The market’s going to decide which one of these we do more of than others.”
Indeed, his energy plan focuses on promoting fossil fuel extraction throughout the country and rolling back key components of President Obama’s environmental legacy. Rubio described how his energy plan treats every company the same, doing away with “carve-outs” and giving every business a flat tax rate of 25 percent. The plan does ignore renewable energy and does not address climate change or carbon emissions.
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Rubio received the surprise endorsement of Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), a proud climate denier and foe of many environmental initiatives. Inhofe took the time last year to encourage the Obama administration to embrace nuclear energy in an op-ed, yet the only mention of renewable energy he spared was to criticize solar and wind technology.
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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/13/3739109/rubio-renewable-energy-number-one/