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History of this country, to building the wind industry. and actually, there is a tortured history of the interplay between these tax credits and the industry going back to the 1980s, when ronald reagan first killed them in 1985, the u.s. was the global leader in wind and energy and what happened was companies immediately went bankrupt. the whole industry gravitated overseas. so the reason, for instance, that vestas is in colorado, that's a danish company. the wind industry gravitated to denmark. so this isn't just a matter of tax credits and randian economics. it also hurts the very thing that...

Building the wind industry. and actually, there's a tortured history of the inner play between these tax credits and the industry going back to the 1980s when ronald reagan first killed them in 1985. the u.s. was the global leader in wind and energy. and what happened was companies immediately went bankrupt. the whole energy gravitated overseas. so the reason that vestus in colorado, that's a danish company. the wind industry gravitated to denmark. this isn't just a matter of tax credits and randian economics, it also hurts the very thing that romney claims to stand for in building up new jobs...

Because when the topic is energy policy, the politics whether they're regional, push politicians towards the absolute, worst, most craven positions. protection of the incumbent fossil fuel industry that's slowly cooking the planet. i'll note that july was the warmest month in the u.s. in to recorded history. but the distinct and strange contours of this year's political map are changing the political incentives around energy policy, at least in a few crucial ways. in colorado, one of the most important swing states, about 5,000 people work in wind production and 37,000 work in the wind industr...

Investments were good deals of taxpayer dollars. >> the wind industry lost 10,000 jobs and the oil and gas industry gained 5,000 jobs. there's a job training program that's helped about 20,000 people. so the whole clean -- green nrpg as spain tried to tell us, is not a moneymaker. >> it's a speculation. and those -- the figures that you just cited should give the people at the white house pause and that is we added 75,000 in the oil and gas and we lost 10,000 in the wind industry. which should we double down on? >> i guess all right. 10 minutes after the hour. roger clemens' trial is getting u...

And that's the fox travelcast for this wet friday here in new york city. >> well, we know yesterday the president was down in miami and he was going to be giving a speech about higher gas prices. i think a lot of people were expecting to hear what the president thinks that he could possibly do to help americans at the pump right now. but instead, much of the speech was about what he felt that he couldn't do. that there was nothing he could do and blaming republicans for some of the ideas they might have had. in the meantime, he continued to push his clean energy policies as the answer to bring...