Issue brief
Energy and Infrastructure Competence
How should America deliver reliable energy and maintained infrastructure?
Our position
Compare technologies by system cost, reliability, emissions, land use, build time, and imports. Maintain drinking water, grids, and transport with published unit costs and schedules.
Why it matters
Affordability and climate goals both fail when queued megawatts are mistaken for operating capacity.
Evidence
P15 shows renewables priority preferences; M07–M08 document infrastructure needs and interconnection queues. Preference is not a technology-exclusive mandate.
Strongest objection
Forced plant retirements and blank-check subsidies both need reliability and household-cost tests.
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