Tom Steyer, a California businessman said in his address to the Democratic National Convention Wednesday evening that betting on President Obama’s energy plan over Mitt Romeny’s is a smart bet. Steyer said the election is a choice between two stark energy policies:
Should we go back to the boom-and-bust, “drill-baby-drill,” polluting energy policies of yesterday, or should we embrace an advanced energy economy that meets opportunity with innovation? Should we settle for an economy built on shifting and uncertain sands, or should we keep building an economy made to last?
Steyer also stressed his business bona fides:
“I think Mitt Romney and I share the same income bracket— although I guess we’re never going to know,” Steyer said.
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Now, I say all this not as the head of Greenpeace or the Sierra Club. I say it as the head of an investment firm that has spent the last quarter-century crunching the numbers and making the tough calls. President Obama knows that advanced energy is America’s future. And my bet, as a business man, is that he’s exactly right.
