And Just In Time For The Conventions: New Young Republican Group To Push For Climate Action

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In a campaign season where energy and climate change have become partisan lightning rods, a small but growing group of Republicans are pushing back against their party’s orthodoxy on both issues.

Leading members of the Christian Coalition and the Young Republicans on Monday will launch nationwide the Young Conservatives for Energy Reform, a grassroots group aimed at engaging Republicans on the goals of cutting oil use, backing alternative energy and clean-air regulations, and fighting climate change.

The announcement comes less than a month after the rollout of a new conservative-run campaign and think tank, the Energy and Enterprise Institute, aimed at winning Republicans over to the idea of using the tax code to cut carbon pollution and fossil fuel use.

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Juan Lopez, a Florida employment lawyer, is the group’s Florida chairman and a lifelong Republican. He acknowledged that within the Republican Party, the new group represents a lone voice—one with a message that’s sometimes at odds with the Romney-Ryan presidential campaign, which is pushing an aggressive expansion of oil drilling. The ticket’s vice presidential nominee and the chairman of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., proposed dramatic cuts to clean-energy spending in his budget proposal. “The leaders of the party are reasonable people,” Lopez said. “They listen to the voices of reason. Ryan is an outdoorsman, he’s in favor of clean air. He listens to all voices…. Republican Party leaders are reasonable, and we’ll get the message across by having our voices heard.”

Ed. - emphasis added.

Oh, and btw Juan, as Journey once said, don't stop believin'.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/conservative-group-plans-to-push-republicans-toward-action-on-climate-cleaner-energy-20120819

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Oh these sweet, silly, stupid, delusional fools.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Poor puppies don't even know why they believe

what they believe .

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. Ryan "listens to all voices". IN HIS HEAD!

[stuntcat]

4. for decades their party's voted against the environment (oceans, forests, air, animals, EVERYTHING)

I am a one-issue voter who started over 20 yrs ago learning all about what we're doing. I have seen enough from R's, for years and years.
If young people have any concern for nature they will not elect republicans. When they do it's for some other selfish or religious reason, the environment is not important enough to them.

[OKIsItJustMe]

5. Believe it or not, once, the Republican party was more responsible

For example:

• The Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the EPA were created by Nixon…
• Theodore Roosevelt (noted conservationist) was a Republican