Krugman On Energy Policy

Nobel-winning economist and columnist at The New York Times, Paul Krugman writes another winner: an article entitled "Enemies of the Sun." Click here for his critique of Republican energy policy (drill, baby, drill; frack, baby, frack -- oh, and as Don Blankenship would say, "Run coal").

Krugman points out that the energy policies of Bush and Rubio specifically (but the other candidates' policies are along the same lines) are to the right even of Dick Cheney, of all people, as expressed in Cheney's report derived from deliberations with oil, gas, and coal company executives in secret early in the Bush years.

One factor in the bullheaded Republican insistence on "Old Energy," says Krugman, is the general widespread antipathy toward the subject of climate change, which is a principle of Republican dogma that poisons from the get-go any discussion of renewable energy.