Huckabee’s sensible energy plan?
(Via Tapped)
Apparently Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has a mildly progressive energy plan:
Huckabee said he supports an economy-wide “cap-and-trade” system to control greenhouse gases, which scientists say are causing climate change. The program, which has been introduced in Congress, would create a market for buying and selling permits to allow carbon-dioxide emissions. President George W. Bush is among Republicans who oppose a carbon cap.
There’s more; Huckabee also supports raising CAFE standards:
I support the Senate bill’s increase in fuel economy standards to an average of 35 MPG by 2020 as long overdue. We need more flex-fuel cars that can run on biodiesel or on E85, which is 85% ethanol, and the pumps to serve them. Right now we have six million such vehicles, but only 2,000 pumps for those fuels in a country with 170,000 gas stations. We need more hybrids and more work on hydrogen cells.
It’s refreshing to know that a Republican is actually engaging in policy discussion.
When Huckabee mentioned his energy policy at the Values Voter Summit he never went over these details. He merely engaged in fiery rhetoric on how we need to stop financing ‘Islamo-fascist terrorists’ by getting our oil from Saudi Arabia. The crowd ate it up. One wonders if the Christian conservatives would have been as enthusiastic about his actual policy plans.