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Bone-headed on energy

02/07/2011
US President Barack Obama remains determined to keep the country on an energy-policy course that is worse than misguided. In the context of clear evidence from the US and elsewhere, it is just bone-headed.Obama reinforced his flawed approach to energy in the State of the Union speech Jan. 25. To pay for "innovation" in "clean energy technology," the president said, Congress should repeal tax preferences for oil and gas companies. And he promised that, by 2035, 80% of US electricity "will come from clean energy sources."Fatal problemsHis program has three fatal problems. It asserts that the government knows best what types of energy people should use. It stipu...
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