Yeah for Renewable Energy!!!!!!

Both Obama and Romney address the importance of energy in the economy through their platforms; since the whole country’s economic activity depends on that. How the candidates proposed their policies that regarding of energy issue became the key whether they will win the presidential contention or not. There are three main points that they argue about. To sum up these differences, we can put them into three questions: what the energy economy should be; what price we want to pay for that and where can we get those energy resources.

They proposed these policies from the perspective of achieving to a better situation and trying hard to boost the economy. Policies related with energy supply and generation will have fundamental effects on the results. Because of the different political background of these two candidates, their proposal for energy policy varies a lot. I will explain what I would lobe to subtract from their platforms regarding of these three questions and trying to combine them towards a new direction.

“I want us to stop giving tax subsidies to oil companies that are already incredibly profitable. I want to double down on our investment in clean energy that’s never been more promising—in solar and wind and biodiesel—and put people back to work so that we can free ourselves from dependence on foreign oil and build up America.”

Obama’s idea and Romney’s idea about what the energy market should be are totally different. Obama committed to a planned energy market by putting in place an “all of the above strategy”. This strategy will help the nation develop all kinds of energy and all available sources of energy. The purpose of doing this is to solve the problem of we have to making a choice between develop the economy or protect our environment. We can tell from Obama’s website that he put wind power and solar energy as the next electricity generation source. For fuel economy part where our automobiles heavily depend upon that, the President make agreement and also standards with manufacturers to make fuel efficiency cars as well as lighter cars to save fuels. The Obama Administration also claim that there will be 12,500 new jobs created by 16 solar energy projects with other 13 renewable projects. 1.3 million American homes can run on this renewable energy. Jobs became another big interest for the public when they are suffering from depression. He also showed his ambitions of helping America becoming less dependent on foreign oil, which it is a stumbling block that limit the growth of America as well as other political problems.

            On the contrary, Romney’s agenda seems more practical for still depending upon traditional energy resources but leave more space for the market to decide. A new regulatory frame will be applied to these industries to ensure they are not polluting the environment as what they did before. This strategy will work better regarding of the current energy situation. Renewable energy sources are definitely better for the environment comparing with the traditional way of energy generating. The problem is that it’s very costly to switch from those ones that we have used for a long time especially where most of the infrastructures are still in use of the traditional energy. It will be very costly and time intensive process to install new infrastructures. Obama’s ambition is good for the environment but not for our purses. He claim that the government will pay for whatever the price it will take to do that. Where is the money come from? Most of the funding comes from tax. In another way to say, from the money we earn.  It will work much better if we can combine these two strategies together. Giving more time for the society as well as the economy to get used to renewable energy. Saving the environment allows no time delay yet we do not have that ability to change it in one night.