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Finally, the president should publicly commit to making sure coal miners emerge as winners in the transition to clean energy jobs.
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In the near term, as we transition to cleaner energy sources, we're going to have to make some tough decisions about opening up new offshore areas for oil and gas development.
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And making the transition to a clean energy economy will help us do that in two very important ways.
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HyGen and other technologies developed by Planetary Power allow companies to transition to more sustainable energy without sacrificing reliability or compromising cost or performance in any way.
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The current energy transition presents an immediate threat to the U.S. and its allies in Western Europe and Asia.
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In some areas, such as energy and water regulation, it is likely that the transition to a combined regulator could take place relatively quickly, whilst in others, such as rail and telecommunications, it is likely to take longer to develop the full range of expertise.
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But the only way the transition to clean energy will ultimately succeed is if the private sector is fully invested in this future -- if capital comes off the sidelines and the ingenuity of our entrepreneurs is unleashed.
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It may be part of the mix as a bridge to a transition to new technologies and new energy sources, but we should be pretty modest in understanding that the easily accessible oil has already been sucked up out of the ground.
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But, in order to make sure the road to low cost clean energy is long and sometimes difficult, America must resist this transition because it makes those of us in power who lost billions of tax payer dollars on subsidizing high cost alternative energy sources look stupid.
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Over time I think the transition is going to be more and more clean energy and over time fossil fuels become less prominent in our overall energy mix.
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