Mitt Romney calls for energy independence at Dover Town Hall meeting

Former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney summarized his "all of the above" approach to energy policy at an August 25, 2011 Town Hall Meeting in Dover, New Hampshire:

… you’ve got to become energy secure, independent of the cartels.

That means developing our own oil and gas and coal and nuclear and wind and solar…

America needs to needs to be energy independent from the cartels. 

Watch the full video of Mitt Romney's Town Hall on C-Span

Mitt Romney on EPA, carbon

Mitt Romney came out in opposition to EPA regulation of carbon emissions at a Town Hall Meeting in Derry, New Hampshire last Thursday. Romney's latest comments on climate change were first reported by Think Progress.

I believe we should keep our air and our water clean. And that we don’t want to have pollutants that are interfering with our health and damaging the ability of our children to enjoy good health. So no question we have to have standards that improve the quality of our air. And I support reasonable standards. … Do I support the EPA? In much of its mission yes, but in some of its mission no. 

The EPA getting into carbon footprints, and... I think we may have made a mistake, we have made a mistake is what I believe, in saying that the EPA should regulate carbon emissions. I don’t think that was the intent of the original legislation, and I don’t think carbon is a pollutant in the sense of harming our bodies.

We can agree to disagree … My view is that the EPA getting into carbon and regulating carbon has gone beyond the original intent of the legislation. I do believe we should reduce the pollutants that harm our health.