OPINION/COMMENTARY

John Kerry’s Energy Plan to Left of Al Gore

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry today released his campaign policy book detailing his liberal agenda for the future. One of his planks is an energy policy that might be mistaken for an Al Gore speech at a “Friends of the Earth” conference. Most notably, Kerry compares the “need” to develop expensive and frivolous energy initiatives such as wind power and solar cells to the Manhattan Project during World War II (Page 49 of Our Plan for America).

Kerry plans to spend tens of billions of dollars to ramp up research in wishful thinking, greenie energy pipe dreams. He leaves such practical and low-hanging fruit as tapping our nation’s vast natural gas reserve on the table. He says nothing about how liberating the Middle East from the scourge of international terrorism will help energy supply needs.

“It’s breathtaking that Senator Kerry would propose the same tired, liberal solutions to America’s energy needs,” said ATR President Grover Norquist. “It’s also simultaneously amusing and insulting to the Greatest Generation that he compared spending billions on an Al Gore wind turbine to defeating the Japanese empire in World War II.”....