The Candidate

Mitt Romney is one of the leading candidates for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination. He is well known as successful business person and as the former Governor of the State of Massachusetts.

The Position

Governor Romney is in favor of using technology to develop clean sources of energy. In a video posted on the Mitt Romney For President website, he states “I believe we have to be developing more energy sources ourselves which would include offshore drilling, drilling in ANWAR, nuclear power, biodiesel, biofuel, ethanol, cellulostic ethanol. Probably liquified coal. We have enormous supplies of coal.”

The official campaign website dedicates a page to the energy issue but there is only a quote and an embedded video.

Our Take

Governor Romney’s position is very light on substance. He mentions the need for improved technologies, fuel efficiency and financial incentives for clean energy production but fails to provide details.

Interestingly enough there is no mention of wind in either Romney’s video or his quote on the web page. He may be avoiding the wind issue since it is well known that he opposed the Cape Wind project during his tenure as Governor of Massachusetts.