Republicans voted against clean renewable energy 95 % of the time for their big oil friends

[DogPoundPup]

his morning the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF) released a brief report surveying Republican voting records on renewable energy (see data here).

This comes the day following Grist’s celebration of Thomas Friedman’s op-ed in the NYT finally calling out a glaring hypocrisy as we head into an intense season of presidential campaigning.

As we covered months ago, the renewal of the renewable energy production and investment tax credits are vital to the industry which have created jobs, generated growth in new sectors, and provided clean energy. The credits were a singular opportunity (inserted in several pieces of legislation) for Congress to act on tangible, near-term, and meaningful energy policy - but as CAPAF found, partisanship stood in the way.

The blogosphere has reacted strongly this week. It’s important for people to understand that this is a non-partisan crisis whose potential solutions are being blocked by Republicans who then spin the blame on Democrats.

New study finds House Republicans participating in energy protests consistently voted against energy independence
Read more and find links to data here ...
http://current.com/items/89201102_republican_voting_records_on_clean_energy

[gatorboy]

1. And I don't want to hear another American report on how bad pollution is in China.

Because we are well on our way.