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I don't recall using the term or advocating protectionism, but I do believe we, as a nation, should exert some control over the disposition of our energy resources, since it is a major component of our trade imbalance, and those trade imbalances send our currency (a measure of our wealth) to other nations and not re-invested here to reduce that dependance...
Don't ignore "Internal Protectionism" that guarantees the continuation of the status quo of Energy Distribution within our borders. It's my pet peeve. The status quo captures all the renewable monies in projects that plug in to the existing grids instead of local projects to benefit local economies, local jobs, and local residents while shipping less monies out of those local economies. This is the "de facto" partnership between Centralized Distribution Network Utilities that collect taxes for their partner, gov'ts. With local projects these two behemoths are cut out of the profit loop. The local citizens are the benefactors. Isn't gov't supposed to address the issues of the citizenry, not the Corporations. Oh wait, Citizens United say these Corporations are Citizens.