Common sense. Not hysteria. What a concept!-------5 Things About Bobby Jindal’s Energy Plan

5 Things About Bobby Jindal’s Energy Plan - WSJ
Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana hopes to emerge as a leading policy thinker in the field of potential GOP presidential candidates. He released an energy plan Tuesday that in some ways is more nuanced and moderate than ideas espoused by other candidates. The 43-year-old governor’s energy plan includes a number of proposals championed by other Republicans, including expanded domestic energy production and the elimination of environmental regulations that target coal-fired power plants. Here’s five more surprising things you should know.

1 AMERICA FIRST

2 SUPPORTING EXPORTS, WITH NUANCE

3 GOING AFTER IOWA’S SACRED COW

Mr. Jindal calls to gradually phase out a federal mandate requiring increasingly large amounts of biofuels, mainly from corn-based ethanol, to be blended into the nation’s gasoline supply. Considered the bellwether for presidential politics, Iowa is also the country’s biggest producer of corn and this mandate is considered a sacred cow in the state. Signaling the importance of this mandate to presidential politics the last go-around, then-GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s energy plan supported it in 2012.

4 A MUTED NOD TO RENEWABLE ENERGY

Renewable energy, including wind and solar, get a fair bit of ink in the report, but Mr. Jindal’s recommendations don’t include some of the biggest priorities for the industries, including extending the production tax credit for the wind industry or pushing a federal renewable portfolio standard. Still, his commitment to renewables is more than a lot of other Republicans, and his long-term goals for the industry, including reforming the tax code and other financing mechanisms, could help boost renewables.

5 PAYING ATTENTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Mr. Jindal also has a whole section devoted to climate change, which is more than most Republicans have given the issue.
But he takes positions directly at odds with environmentalists—and, likely, with whoever becomes the Democratic presidential nominee—by questioning the role humans play in global warming and calling on the U.S. to withdraw from climate talks led by the United Nations.