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Romney Discusses Energy Independence in South Carolina
-- Emma -- 09/05/2007
South Carolina activists attended a Mitt Romney campaign event over the weekend, where the former governer was asked multiple questions about energy and global warming. He responded that energy independence is one of his top priorities, calling his plan "a Manhattan-style project, an Apollo-style project." And the content of his plan? "There are probably two parts, to get us independent of foreign oil. One is to develop our own sources of energy, much more aggressively than we have. And by that I mean: nuclear power, coal power, probably liquified coal, where we sequester the CO2, and our renewable sources-solar, wind, biodiesel, biofuel. The commissioner of agriculture in Florida was telling me about blue-green algae they use to create biofuel, so there are a lot of sources of our own energy we have to develop. That's number one. Number two, we have to be more efficient in our use of energy."
Romney reiterated his support for liquified coal later in the event, saying, "China's building five plants now, apparently, for liquified coal. We would attempt, if we were building one, to sequester the CO2 . . . We have to develop the technology. If it can do that, and not emit CO2, it would be a huge advance, because we have got a lot of coal, and so does China." According to Romney, his first priority is to create a program "that's going to get us independent of foreign oil, and at the same time have the byproduct of reducing our CO2 emissions."
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by Emma