ABSTRACT
In 2000 George W. Bush succeeded Bill Clinton as President and the Bush-Cheney Administration came in with their own views on energy policy. Their focus was on fossil fuels and nuclear power, as it had been in the Reagan Administration. It was a discouraging period for renewables and I believe the United States lost valuable time while the rest of the world began to make significant progress in their development and deployment of renewables. We clearly lost out on the economic activity and jobs that were going to other countries as the new, clean energy industries were being established.
