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Energy and the Republican Party Conservative Energy and the Republican Party Conservative Values in Action June 2012 © Energy and the Republican Party 2 executive summary The current American Energy Paradigm exists in opposition to core conservative values. The century-old paradigm²ostensibly gasoline powered automobiles and the national electrical grid comprised of regional power plants and transmission lines²LVDFRPPRQWKHPHLQ$PHULFD¶VFRPPRQSUREOHPV x U.S. Foreign policy is inconsistent and significantly motivated by maintaining access to oil rather than promoting global political self-determination; x Our national security is threatened by the vulnerability of the national electrical grid from terrorists and space weather. Additionally, our military bases have little capability to operate in the absence of the grid; x The DepartPHQWRI'HIHQVHLVVSUHDGWKLQDQGRXUWURRSVDUHSXWLQKDUP¶V way securing access to oil; x The U.S. economy is in dire need of manufacturing jobs, undermining U.S. economic strength and the American family; x Small businesses and conglomerates alike struggle to turn a profit while infrastructure costs from transportation and utilities continue to rise; and, x Family budgets are strained by high gas and utility prices, which also put inflationary pressures on the products we buy, further limiting spending power. Though there is little discussion about it in Republican circles, the current American Energy Paradigm is inconsistent with core conservative values: it does not reflect our respect for human dignity; perpetuating it does not display prudence; maintaining it is often unjust; and its existence accelerates the growth of centralized governmental power and the influence of large corporations. Yet the GOP has largely ignored energy as a focal point for the party, ceding the issue to the Democrats who traditionally link energy policy to climate change. The confluence of American woes and the decidedly un-conservative impacts of the American Energy Paradigm has created an opportunity for the Grand Old Party to reassert its belief in core conservative values, while simultaneously advocating policies that will improve the lives of present and future citizens. The goals of this report are to: 1. Define a conservative point of view on energy in America; 2. Focus GOP creativity on energy solutions that match our values; 3. Engage and inspire the GOP around energy; and, Energy and the Republican Party 3 4. Link conservative values and energy use, for today and tomorrow. And to do all these things in the belief that the development of a comprehensive Republican energy policy, consistent with conservative values, best meets the future needs of America and her citizens. Energy and the Republican Party 4 table of contents Focus on Values 30 Introduction 5 Be Personal and Relevant 31 Who Is the Republican Party 6 The Tea Party 31 History of Conservative Thought 7 How Americans Win 34 Some Conservative Values 8 Oil: Prices and Crisis 35 Energy in America: Trend Analysis 11 Energy Matters (Climate Change National Security 12 'RHVQ¶W 36 Foreign Policy 14 Instruments of Inertia 37 Support for the Troops 16 Jobs 39 The Economy 18 Change is Expensive 39 Business Profitability 20 Change Takes Time 40 Community Living 22 Subsidies 40 America the Beautiful 24 Media 41 Biblical Stewardship 24 Democrats 42 Outdoorsmen 27 Conclusion 42 Eminent Domain 28 Appendix I: Pondering the Future 44 How Republicans Can Win 29 Appendix II: Compromise and the American Political System 48 Seize the Political Momentum 29 End Notes 49 Energy and the Republican Party 5 introduction x $PHULFD¶V ZLOGHUQHVV DQG LWV ZLOGOLIH ZKHUH $PHULFDQV WXUQ IRU D PRPHQW¶V UHVSLWH DUH Over the last four centuries each leading global being erased by electrical wires and mining. economic power has ridden an emergent fuel resource x The U.S. is funding both sides of the war on into supremacy: Holland in the 17th century with wind terror²paying billions of dollars in oil revenues and hydro power; Britain in the 18th and 19th century to hostile countries that will recycle those with abundant coal; and in the last century, the United revenues to attack American troops and 6WDWHV ZLWK RLO ,Q IDFW LW¶V QRW K\SHUEROH WR VD\ WKDW America at large. The U.S. is funding the very America was propelled to prominence in the 20th century threat America opposes. by our use of oil and electricity.1 x Utility bills increase on average 7% a year, and The downside so far has been that each country yet Americans remain vulnerable, through no able to seize a unique energy opportunity has lacked the fault of their own, to power outages. ZKHUHZLWKDOWRPDQDJHWKHQH[WRQH2QHJHQHUDWLRQ¶V The wasteful and thoughtless use of energy is the LQQRYDWLRQVEHFDPHDODWHUJHQHUDWLRQ¶VHQWUHQFKPHQWV common theme that runs through our common The infrastructure created by these successes eventually struggles. became economic obstacles to progress.2 The American narrative has never been a biography, Does this have to be the American destiny? Maybe. told in the past tense, laying claim to deeds done by our Today in America: ancestors. The American narrative has always been a x High gas and utility prices strain family hypothesis²a wonder filled expression of possibility, to budgets²preventing more family fun and be proved daily by the combined expression of our investing for the future. pursuit of the American Dream. The American narrative x Communities reflect the ´DELOLW\´ WR FRPPXWH is always the story of tomorrow. not the desire to commune. 7RP %URNDZ¶V ERRN The Greatest Generation is not x The U.S. has lost numerous manufacturing an eternal declarative. It is a gauntlet waiting for the sectors, leaving many to work at jobs until a confluence of events and an awakened generation of better one comes along instead of having Americans, once again united by a common cause, in careers and professional stability. Furthermore, this case managing the next energy opportunity, to rising middle-class unemployment may be HQVXUH$PHULFD¶VSUHHPLQHQWJOREDOSRVLWLRQ having a deleterious effect on the institution of $PHULFD¶V ZDVWHIXO XVH RI HQHUJ\ FDQ QR ORQJHU EH marriage as economic struggles pull marriages viewed as just a political or scientific debate that apart and unemployed men are increasingly requires resolution through study or legislation. The unattractive potential marriage partners for American energy orgy, as it is today, is a common women. enemy to our country, to our families, and to our x Small businesses and global conglomerates dreams. struggle to turn profits under the weight of Ending our thoughtless production of energy is now mounting infrastructure costs. the most pro-American, patriotic issue of our time. Energy and the Republican Party 6 Americans must sever their ties to AmerLFD¶V energy paradigm because, though it will be painful, doing so is ho is the republican party? LQNHHSLQJZLWK$PHULFD¶VPRVWFKHULVKHGYDOXHV w Like any organization, the Republican Party is a To where, then, shall Americans look for answers? group of unique and complicated individuals who have, For years, Democrats have been advancing the issue of for a variety of reasons, chosen to identify themselves global climate change and have been leaders in with a political party that supports American proposing energy legislation to mitigate emissions. conservatism. Two problems emerge from that broad However, this singular focus, particularly when definition. First, because individuals are unique and combined with the fact that a significant number of complicated, there are a multitude of competing Americans are skeptical about the veracity of climate interests, as varied and numerous as the membership science and/or the impact of humans on it, has limited itself. Speaking to a Republican farmer from Iowa the potential of proposals from Democrats. would be a very different experience than speaking to a The Republican Party has eschewed engagement on Republican Wall Street banker. Addressing diverse and effective energy legislation for two reasons. First, the sometimes opposing viewpoints in the same audience party is the home for many climate change skeptics who presents significant challenges. Doing so requires use of GRXEW WKH VFLHQFH GRQ¶W conclude there is a sense of common language and shared values that transcend urgency, and/or object to government being the driving individual interests. force behind change. Secondly, the proposals from the This illuminates the second problem. There is no Democrats are inconsistent with Republican ideas of agreed upon body of dogma that defines American governance. conservatism, at least not as a part of a commonly used It is the Republicans, then, with the greatest lexicon or expression of values. In $LQ¶W 0\ $PHULFD, potenWLDO WR FDWDO\]H FRQVWUXFWLYH FKDQJHV LQ $PHULFD¶V author Bill Kauffman describHV WKH ³YDOXHV RQFH use and production of energy. If the energy discussion associated with Conservatism²decentralism, liberty, LV GHFRXSOHG IURP ³FOLPDWH-change,´ DQG WKH OLQNV economy in government, religious faith, family- between energy and traditional conservative values can centerHGQHVVSDURFKLDOLVPVPDOOQHVV´3 be made, then perhaps an inspiring vision for a New Defining the GOP, though, can be simplified by American Energy Paradigm can be put forth that thinking in the aggregate. If addressing a gathering of promotes American exceptionalism for the next century, Republicans in a single group PDQ\ RI WKH DXGLHQFH¶V while the Republican Party spearheads these changes self-interests are likely to be checked at the door as the with policies that are rooted in addressing the personal group assumes the larger task of developing and and immediately relevant needs of American families manifesting consensus on objectives and means. This and businesses. Additionally, by pursuing energy simpler definition²thinking of the Republican Party as a policies that are consistent with traditional Republican single group rather than a collection of individuals² core values, the GOP can reiterate and emphasize those provides the best hope for defining a group need, values through their actions to a skeptical and cynical though care must be given to avoid generalizations that electorate.
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