First, a little context. I discovered that my policy views are largely compatible with those of Jill Stein. Unfortunately, this survey largely omits energy policy. Since energy policy is, in my opinion, the most important thing in the current spectrum of US policy, I consider this a massive oversight.
How we approach problems with energy scarcity is the single most important political question of our age.
Energy, simply put, is the capacity to do work. Because of this, it helps drive economy. It is what we use to convert natural resources into goods. It is what we use to convert sunlight into food. It is what we use to convert labor into leisure. Our ability to extract and use energy to perform work is one of the biggest reasons that slavery is relegated to illegal operations around the world. We've made energy our slave, so we no longer need to make slaves of each other.
Energy, additionally, is "free" - in that the human race does not synthesize th