• Romney is of the opinion wherein the solution to our
environmental problem lies in adopting a market approach. While
solving the environmental challenges, we should also be
supporting growth.

• Rather than establishing mandates, the United States
should harness its power of innovation to enhance the alternative
energy sources and discover innovative technologies that will
help use the energy more efficiently.

• Romney gives importance to achieving the target of
energy independence so that it can free itself from its
enslavement to oil rich countries at the same time becoming an
economic and military superpower. This will require a series of
measures that will include energy efficiency to be adopted and
conservation. 

• The nation will also need to develop and harness
alternate sources of energy such as nuclear energy, biodiesel,
ethanol along with exploiting more domestic sources of oil such
as Outer Continental Shelf and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 

• Romney believes the nation will also have to invest a
lot in research and innovation. The areas that will need heavy
investment include fuel technology, power generation and
materials science.  There needs to be an emphasis on clean
technology and more efficient power generation.

• Mitt Romney is against the Kyoto Protocol believing that
it will result in jobs leaving the United States. 

• Romney is also criticized for flip-flopping on the
environmental question. He was blamed for subjecting his will to
the likes of big companies. 
		

• Obama said, "So we have a choice to make.  We can remain
one of the world's leading importers of foreign oil, or we can
make the investments that would allow us to become the world's
leading exporter of renewable energy.  We can let climate change
continue to go unchecked, or we can help stop it.  We can let the
jobs of tomorrow be created abroad, or we can create those jobs
right here in America and lay the foundation for lasting
prosperity."

• Obama is working towards reducing the carbon pollution
which he sees as a threat to our climate and will perpetuate the
dependence on fossil fuels. Obama lists out his policies to close
the carbon loophole and imposing stringent measures on carbon
polluters. 

• Obama believes that carbon pollution can be put at check
through a market based cap. This is not only an environmentally
friendly measure, but will address certain energy challenges too.
 The income that is generated in the process of closing the
carbon loophole will be returned to the people, especially those
families, communities and business which are vulnerable.

• Obama also exhorted to save the future generations from
a catastrophe of global proportions by spelling out an energy
plan wherein the carbon dioxide emissions will be reduced.

• "We've been talking about climate change in Washington
for years and energy independence and efficiency for years,"
Obama said. "But no matter how many scientists testified about
greenhouse gases, no matter how much evidence that they're
threatening our coasts and endangering our weather patterns,
nothing happened with global warming until now."