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Energy production is the generation of power from raw materials – excludes extraction of those materials
Vaekstfonden 6 – Vaekstfonden is a Danish government backed investment fund that facilitates the supply of venture capital in terms of start-up equity and high-risk loans "THE ENERGY INDUSTRY IN DENMARK- perspectives on entrepreneurship and venture capital" No Specific Cited, Latest Data From 2006 s3.amazonaws.com/zanran_storage/www.siliconvalley.um.dk/ContentPages/43667201.pdf

In all, 20 industry experts were interviewed about the composition and dynamics of the Danish energy sector. Insights from a minimum of 3 industry experts have been assigned to each of the stages in the value chain. Following is a brief description of what the different stages encompass.
Raw material extraction
This stage encompass the process before the actual production of the energy. As an example it is increasingly expensive to locate and extract oil from the North Sea. Likewise coal, gas and waste suitable for energy production can be costly to provide.
Energy production
Energy production encompasses the process, where energy sources are transformed into heat and power.
Transmission and distribution

Violation – the plan removes a restriction on buying solar tech, not the production itself

Vote neg for limits – they explode the research base and make it impossible to be neg 

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Oil prices will stabilize now – prices will stick above OPEC break-even levels without significant changes
Irina Rogovaya August 2012; writer for Oil and Gas Eurasia, Oil Price Changes: Everyone Wants Stability http://www.oilandgaseurasia.com/articles/p/164/article/1875/
According to the current base ... of the cartel will not let prices fall under $100 per barrel.
Individual-level solar power would significantly impact oil dependence
Dawn Allcot 9-8-2011; frequently covers energy efficiency, green living, and topics like LED lighting and whole home control systems for a number of technology trade magazines. Solar Power Reduces Our Dependency on Oil http://www.ecooutfitters.net/blog/2011/09/solar-power-reduces-our-dependency-on-oil/
Oil and the Middle East Unfortunately, ...prices remain at or above $120pb.
Russian economic collapse causes global nuclear war
Steven David, January/February 1999; Professor of International Relations and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, , http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19990101faessay955/steven-r-david/saving-america-from-the-coming-civilwars.html
If internal war does strike Russia, economic ...might produce another horrific regime.
High prices are key to Russian military modernization
John T. Bennett, 4-3-2012; covers national security and foreign policy for U.S. News and World Report“Oil Prices Fueling Russia's Disruption of U.S. Foreign Policy
Russia's burgeoning oil and natural gas exports are underwriting Russian efforts to regain status as a world superpower” http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/04/03/oil-prices-fueling-russias-disruption-of-us-foreign-policy
U.S.-Russian relations returned to the... that cannot simply be ignored," Burwell says.
Modernization is key to maintain the nuclear threshold – prevents miscalc and escalation
Bettina Renz and Rod Thornton January 2012; lecturers on international security in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham “Russian Military Modernization Cause, Course, and Consequences”  Problems of Post-Communism  Volume 59, Number 1 / January / February 2012 p 44 - 54
The perceived weakness of this triad ... weapons are not comfortable bedfellows.

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The United States Supreme Court should rule that compliance orders from federal enforcement agencies regarding tariffs on solar panels produced in the People’s Republic of China unconstitutional.
Courts have authority to rule over energy production
Brenda Bowers April 2011 “Future Of American Energy Production At Stake In US Supreme Court – Big Government” http://brendabowers.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/%C2%BB-future-of-american-energy-production-at-stake-in-us-supreme-court-big-government/
We all know how important energy is in our lives, just as commercial energy
AND
make policy in perhaps the single most critical policy area for American prosperity.
This solves and competes – it doesn’t ‘reduce’ a legal restriction – it just makes it unenforceable
William Treanor (associate professor of law at Fordham University) and Gene Sperling (Deputy assistant to the president for economic policy University of Minnesota) 1993 “Prospective overruling and the revival of Unconstitutional statutes” JSTOR
Unlike the Supreme Court, several state courts have explicitly addressed the revival issue.
AND
a statute did not revive does not offer a convincing rationale for nonrevival. 

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Text: The United States federal government should substantially increase necessary resources to improve data collection on foreign export promotion, should provide access to export finance and should provide greater investment to improve coordination within the Trade Enforcement Center division of the U.S. Trade Representative’s office. The aforementioned proposal should prioritize resource investment towards the People’s Republic of China.
The counterplan solves the case – improving coordination is a pre requisite to effective trade policy  
Dewan, 12 March 14th, Sabina, Director of Globalization and International Employment at the Center for American Progress, Filling in the Gaps in Our Trade Intelligence
The United States Needs Better Intelligence on Other Nations’ Industrial Policy Tools, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/03/trade_intelligence.html
Next week’s verdict due from the U.S. Department of Commerce on whether
AND
violations before they occur, protecting the rights of American firms and workers.¶
Every 1ac claim is wrong – tariffs secure competition necessary for innovation – the effects on the industry are small, inconsistent demand and production shifts take out solvency – a refusal to maintain tariffs collapses the solar market  
Hart and Gordon, 12 Melanie Hart is a Policy Analyst on China Energy and Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress. Kate Gordon is Vice President for Energy Policy at the Center, “The Complexities of the U.S. Decision on Chinese Solar Panel Imports” http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/03/china_solar_panels.htm
Everyone agrees that imposing import tariffs on Chinese solar panels should benefit the U.
AND
a combination of demand-side policies and protection from adverse price incentives.¶ 

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Kennedy is leaning towards a conservative ruling on Fisher now – but progressive forces are pushing him to make a controversial decision to preserve affirmative action
David Gans (Director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights and Citizenship Program at the Constitutional Accountability Center) February 28, 2012 “Fisher v. University of Texas, Justice Kennedy, and the Text and History of the Fourteenth Amendment “ http://balkin.blogspot.com/2012/02/fisher-v-university-of-texas-justice.html
Progressives have the upper …of the Constitution’s text and history.¶
 insert plan unpopular
This will force Kennedy to strike down affirmative action - Court capital is key for Kennedy.  He won’t make multiple controversial decisions
Michael Rappaport (Professor, University of San Diego School of Law) 2004 SYMPOSIUM: THE REHNQUIST COURT: IT'S THEO'CONNOR COURT: A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF SOME CRITIQUES OF THE REHNQUISTCOURT AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE LAW. 99 Nw. U.L. Rev.369, http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/illlr99andcollection=journalsandpage=369#387,
One important element of …decision was wrong as an original matter.49¶
He is the swing vote in Fisher v UT-Austin
Daniel de Vise (writer for the Washington Post) February 23, 2012 “Texas affirmative action case may hinge on Justice Kennedy” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions/2012/02/23/gIQA1nZJWR_blog.html
¶ Which way the Supreme Court…summary of what they will find:

Key to the economy
Amicus Brief submitted by an association of small businesses 2012 “BRIEF FOR AMICI CURIAE SMALL
BUSINESS OWNERS AND ASSOCIATIONS
IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS” http://www.utexas.edu/vp/irla/Documents/ACR%20Small%20Business%20Owners.pdf
The signatories to this brief – representing¶ hundreds …¶ in both higher education and small business
Economic collapse causes global nuclear war
Friedberg and Schoenfeld, 2008  Aaron, Prof. Politics. And IR @ Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and Visiting Scholar @ Witherspoon Institute, and Gabriel, Senior Editor of Commentary and Wall Street Journal, “The Dangers of a Diminished America” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html
Then there are the dolorous consequences …from internal travails with external adventures.

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The United States Supreme Court should grant cert to the area that the 1ac addresses.  The Court should rule against the Third Circuit Court decision in New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission on vague constitutional grounds.
This solves the whole case – litigation losses redirects and re-energizes social movements that result in a better version of the aff
Douglas NeJaime (Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles) 2011 “Winning Through Losing” http://lime.weeg.uiowa.edu/~ilr/issues/ILR_96-3_NeJaime.pdf
First, I explore two internal movement effects of litigation loss: (1) …of results they hoped to avoid.
The net-benefit is enforcement - Court victories trade-off with more effective reform strategies – crushes movements and causes conservative backlash – flips the aff
Little West (Associate at Long, Pound, and Komer, P.A., J.D. North Carolina – Chapel Hill) 2004 “Awakening the Moral Consciousness: On the Numbing of the Conscience of a Nation”  83 N.C.L. Rev. 289, Lexis
The more courts show a willingness …interjections into the political process.

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The resolution indicates affs should advocate topical government change
Ericson 3 (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)

The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, … to perform the future action that you propose. 

Violation – the aff does not defend the implementation of the plan and garners advantages off of the 1ac’s representations
Specific, limited resolutions ensure mutual ground which is key to sustainable controversy without sacrificing creativity or openness
Steinberg and Freeley 8 *Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp45-

Debate is a means of … in the following discussion.

Stasis point key—they make debate one-sided because any self-defense we raise is itself subject to psychoanalytic doubt.  Only our framework maintains productive contestation
Diane Perpich 5, Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt, 2005, “Figurative Language and the "Face" in Levinas's Philosophy,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 38, No. 2, p. 103-121

Levinas's hesitations about the … the ego in the totality.

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No renaissance now
Rose, 11 Michael, Michael Rose has directed, written, and or produced over two hundred television programs that have aired around the world. His most recent film, Elvis: Return to Tupelo, premiered last Fall on the bio channel and will be shown on PBS starting this Spring. March 15th, Too Cheap to Meter: The Top 10 Myths of Nuclear Power, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rose/too-cheap-to-meter-the-to_b_835730.html
Myth #4: The U.S. is in the … Leonardo da Vinci," said Hirsch.

Energy efficiency is coming now and will stabilize the climate
Lovins 10 *Amory B. Lovins (and) is Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute and Chairman Emeritus of Fiberforge Corporation, he advises governments and major firms worldwide on advanced energy and resource efficiency, In 2009, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers “Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil, and Proliferation, Amory B. Lovins, June 10th 2010, PDF
INTRODUCTION Fortunately, many …—huge climate leverage.

Construction of nuclear activities causes warming – trades off with energy efficiency
Roche* 7 – *Site editor, no direct author given, but N02 Nuclear Power.org is a site created and run by Pete Roche who is an energy consultant based in Edinburgh and policy adviser to the Scottish Nuclear Free Local Authorities, and the National Steering Committee of UK NFLA. Pete was co-founder of the Scottish Campaign to Resist the Atomic Menace (SCRAM), he has represented Greenpeace at international meetings and is active in several other areas relating to environmental protection and nuclear power http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/reports/Opportunity_Costs_Nuclear.pdf, January 2007 “Opportunity Costs of Nuclear Power
Introduction The opportunity cost of any … power by a large and rising margin.

Warming causes extinction
Costello 11 –, Anthony, Institute for Global Health, University College London, Mark Maslin, Department of Geography, University College London, Hugh Montgomery, Institute for Human Health and Performance, University College London, Anne M. Johnson, Institute for Global Health, University College London, Paul Ekins, Energy Institute, University College London “Global health and climate change: moving from denial and catastrophic fatalism to positive action” May 2011 vol. 369 no. 1942 1866-1882 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 

Advocacy about the health consequences will ensure that climate … uninhabitable.

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The 50 state governments and relevant subnational actors should establish energy financing banks to do the plan.

States should establish energy finance banks to do the plan – solves all the case and doesn’t require new spending
Muro and Berlin, 9/12/12 – *senior fellow and policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings AND  Senior Vice President for Policy and Planning, and General Counsel at the Coalition for Green Capital (Mark and Ken, “State Clean Energy Finance Banks: New Investment Facilities for Clean Energy Deployment”, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2012/9/12%20state%20energy%20investment%20muro/12%20state%20energy%20investment%20muro)
Given these challenges, states …of return, such as pension fund investors.
It’s legitimate and politics is a net benefit
Harvard Law Review, 6 – the author isn’t named but the qualifications are: John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School  (119 Harv. L. Rev. 1855, “STATE COLLECTIVE ACTION*”, April, lexis)
Consider now the reasons why …governmental insurance programs.

1nc: condition on cost competitiveness cp, energy efficiency disad, oil disad, states cp,elections disad 

2nr: condition on cost competitiveness cp 

1nc: t-negative incentives, states cp, elections disad, oil disad, heg bad

2nr: disease turn (heg bad), case 

1nc: t- direct, t- increase, reverse courts cp, court capital disad, elections

2nr: reverse courts cp, solvency turns 

1nc: Afro-pessimism bad k, resistance pedagogy bad, framework,cap k

2nr: Afro-pessimism bad