Wall Street Journal – Big Business: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Details Energy Blueprint

9/30/08

Big Business: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Details Energy Blueprint
Posted by Keith Johnson

Republicans in Congress liked to tout an all-of-the-above energy policy. They have nothing on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy today unveiled its detailed energy prescriptions for the next administration, putting some red meat on the “13 pillars” the group published this summer in an open letter to the President and Congress.

The smorgasboard of energy proposals calls for greater government support for energy efficiency, renewable energy, an international climate-change accord, more domestic oil production, more nuclear power, more clean coal, alternative fuels for transport, and bigger and better energy infrastructure.

Retired Marine General James Jones, president and CEO if the Institute, called it “critical” that the next president make energy policy a priority, and called it a “national security issue of the highest order.”

Today, the Institute fleshed out some of the generic ideas in the open letter in July with 75 specific policy proposals. Among the highlights:

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