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...which is an unusual claim for a guy in the energy business. Then again, Kelly is the CEO of Green Mountain Energy, "the nation's largest retailer of cleaner and renewable energy." And with all the talk from George W. Bush and Dick Cheney about upping domestic production of coal and oil power and taking a "fresh look" at nuclear power - the three kinds of energy Green Mountain vows never to peddle - the report doesn't have many encouraging words anyway...
...what Kelly calls the "true cost" of energy, including environmental impact, is taken into account. He's hinting, of course, that a big fat subsidy - in the form of a don't-worry-too-much-about-the-pollution thumbs-up from Dick Cheney's report - is exactly what the coal, oil and nuke industries are about to receive...
...Green Mountain does the symbolic things it thinks will build up its brand. In February, Green Mountain scored its biggest success in deregulated Ohio - coal country - where it was selected to serve 400,000 of the state's electricity customers with the cleanest energy it can afford to sell profitably...
...Kyoto? CO2 emissions? Slashing environmental regulations? An energy policy based largely on coal, oil and nuclear? For Kelly and Green Mountain, it's all just good publicity: "The whole discussion is really good for our business...
...moment, forget about conservation. And renewable energy. As George W. Bush gets ready to raise the curtain on his vice president's more-oil, more-coal, more-nukes long-term energy plan Thursday, he's left the Democrats a political opening bigger and juicier than any environmental outcry: Gas and electricity prices this summer...