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OKIsItJustMe

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Tue Mar 6, 2012, 06:18 PM Mar 2012

Romney’s Latest Clean Energy Attack: ‘You Can’t Drive A Car With A Windmill On It’ [View all]

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/03/06/438121/romneys-latest-clean-energy-attack-you-cant-drive-a-car-with-a-windmill-on-it/
[font face=Times, Times New Roman, Serif][font size=5]Romney’s Latest Clean Energy Attack: ‘You Can’t Drive A Car With A Windmill On It’[/font]

By Rebecca Leber on Mar 6, 2012 at 10:37 am

[font size=3]Aping Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney is bashing clean energy as a liberal fantasy. Campaigning yesterday in Youngstown, Ohio, Romney claimed that President Barack Obama lives in an “imaginary world” where clean energy powers the economy. Romney attacked administration commitments to clean energy that reduce U.S. dependence on oil and fight climate change. To illustrate his point, Romney told his Ohio audience, “you can’t drive a car with a windmill on it”:

We all like wind and solar, but you can’t drive a car with a windmill on it.



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