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Obama Has Announced Support For the Extension of the PTC But It Wont Happen Until After the Election

Des Moines Register 2012 8/15 Wind credit likely to stay
All the huff and puff on the campaign trail in Iowa aside, it’s likely
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credit won’t happen before the election, aides for Iowa’s congressional delegation said.

That Delay Will Tank the Industry and it will be a short-term extension

Bloomberg 2012 Aug 21 Extend Wind-Power Tax Credit Now, So It Can Die Later http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-21/extend-wind-power-tax-credit-now-so-it-can-die-later.html
With companies rushing to finish before another expiration on Dec. 31, building this
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it would take some time for the industry to ramp up its plans.

Short-Term Extensions Create Uncertain Markets That Stifles the Industry – 5 Reasons

Dr. Ryan Wiser, Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2007 March 29 "Wind Power and the Production Tax Credit: An Overview of Research Results" Testimony Prepared for a Hearing on  ’Clean Energy:  From the Margins to the Mainstream’ Senate Finance Committee  
Though the historical impacts of the PTC are well known, somewhat less recognized is
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given uncertainty in the future ¶ domestic market demand for those advanced technologies. 

And Scalability Would Be Fast – Industries Are Just Waiting on a Signal From a Stable Federal Policy
Clean Technica 08 ("The "Unlimited" Potential of American Wind Power: AWEA", April 22, http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/22/the-unlimited-potential-of-american-wind-power-awea/)
The American Wind Energy Association -http://www.awea.org/held a press conference today-http://www.awea.org/newsroom/releases/Call_for_Immediate_Extension_of_Key_RE_Incentive_042108.html (4/21/
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they need is enough time to build, which relies upon the PTC. 

Plan: The United States federal government ought to make available a permanent production tax credit for systems referenced in United States Code Title 42, Chapter 100, § 9210(2).

Advantage 1 is the economy

A Short Term PTC After the Election can’t solve investor uncertainty

Leone, 12 (Steve, Associate Editor@ RenewableEnergyWorld.com, "¶ On the Edge of the Subsidy Cliff: Will the US PTC Expire?", 7/31/12, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/07/on-the-edge-of-the-subsidy-cliff-will-the-us-ptc-expire?page=all) WP
¶ The Timetable¶ ¶ At Windpower 2012, the American Wind Energy Association (
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, three years and five years down the road,’ he added.

Permanent Extension Key to Create Investor Certainty in the Longterm

Huffington Post 7/6 (12, "Investment will follow If congress renews PTC" http://www.thecleanenergyexchange.org/posts/view/investment-will-follow-if-congress-renews-ptc/d709khtkaw/)
This tax credit has been wildly successful, helping to fuel 400 wind manufacturing facilities
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growth and to assure our global leadership in a rapidly emerging new sector.

Wind energy solves job creation- spills over to multiple sectors of the economy

Philip Warburg Environmental Lawyer and president of the Conservation Law Foundation 2012 Harvest the Wind: America’s Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability Beacon Press, Boston Pg95
Under the 20% Wind Energy by 2030 scenario, manufacturing jobs directly related to
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new, skill-based jobs – isn’t this a path worth taking?

====Stable wind industry key to manufacturing sector- PTC key====
BusinessWire 12/12/11 (New Study: Wind Energy Success Story at Risk with 54,000 American Jobs in the Balance, http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111212005589/en/Study-Wind-Energy-Success-Story-Risk-54000) kc
"American manufacturing jobs are coming back, with tens of thousands of new jobs
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its products, the PTC effectively expires at the end of this year.

Manufacturing is Key to the US Economy

Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2011 "Innovations in New Technology" http://www.ornl.gov/adm/partnerships/industrial/ManufactBrochureSml.pdf
The US manufacturing industry is a cornerstone of the American ¶ economy and embodies the
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to transition technologies that will drive manufacturing ¶ innovations in the coming decades.

Sustained Growth is Key – The Economy Cant Survive Another Shock to the System

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch 07/31 2012 "The Real Crash is dead ahead as 2008 is forgotten" http://www.marketwatch.com/Story/story/print?guid=4D03D32E-DA5E-11E1-8194-002128049AD6
Think history folks: Remember 2000-2002? The economy suffered a 30-
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without forcing a newer, tougher Glass-Steagall law on the banks.

Sustaining US Job Growth is Key to the US Economy – Collapse Would Go Global

AP, 7-24-’12 ("Another global recession on the horizon?")
Reinvigorating the US economy prevents global economic meltdown¶ One growing concern about the global
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U.S. economy falls off the so-called fiscal cliff.

Global nuclear war
Mead, Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy @ CFR, 09  ~Walter Russell, The New Republic, "Only Makes You Stronger", 2/4, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8%26p=2-http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8%26p=2~~
If current market turmoil seriously damaged the performance and prospects of India and China,
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the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight.

Advantage 2 is Energy Leadership

====Energy leadership low – Obama is perceived as a nationalist on energy because of dirty energy production====
Klare Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College 6-21-12 (Michael, "Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?" http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/barack-obama-energy-dick-cheney-http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/barack-obama-energy-dick-cheney**, Mike)
As details of his administration’s global war against terrorists, insurgents, and hostile warlords
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but copying the Cheney energy blueprint is bound to produce the exact opposite.

PTC is Key to Energy Leadership

By Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. Member, House Ways And Means Committee, 2012 August 7 "Congress Should Extend PTC Immediately" http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/should-wind-tax-credit-stay-or.php
The world is in the midst of an energy revolution. Due to rising fossil fuel prices, the instability of oil rich regions, and the increasing dangers of global climate change, communities all over the planet are looking for new, modern, sustainable sources of energy. The United States should lead the way in investment and innovation that will pay dividends both economically and environmentally for decades to come by extending the PTC.

That Will Be Modeled

Desombre, 10 (Elizabeth R, Frost Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science focusing on international environmental politics @ Wellesley,  "The United States and Global Environmental Politics: Domestic Sources of U.S. Unilateralism", 2010, http://www.polisci.ufl.edu/usfpinstitute/2010/documents/readings/DeSombre%20Chapter.pdf-http://www.polisci.ufl.edu/usfpinstitute/2010/documents/readings/DeSombre Chapter.pdf) WP
U.S. leadership (or even level of participation) in international environmental
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, pushed by industry impacted by¶ international (or subnational) regulation.

Now is key to curbing climate change – wind power sends an international signal

Global Wind Energy Council ’12 ("Wind Energy Must be Key Climate Change Solution," http://www.gwec.net/index.php?id=136-http://www.gwec.net/index.php?id=136, Mike)
Climate change is now generally accepted to be the greatest environmental threat facing the world
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and the finance sector need for wind power to reach its full potential. 

Wind Power Solves Warming

Greenpeace ’6 ("Wind Power Key to Fight Climate Change," September 20, http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/wind-power-key-to-fight-climat/-http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/wind-power-key-to-fight-climat/, Mike)
Over a third of the world’s electricity - crucially including that required by industry -
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will determine the world’s environmental and economic situation for many decades to come." 

Sustained Leadership is Key – Wind Power Can Replace Fossil Fuels Globally in 4 Years

Bloomberg 11 (10/11, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, "Onshore wind energy to reach parity with fossil-fuel electricity by 2016" http://bnef.com/PressReleases/view/172)
London and New York, 10 November 2011 – The cost of electricity from onshore
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fired turbines, would bring forward the timing of grid parity for wind.

Climate change results in multiple scenarios for extinction – it’s try or die for the aff

Sawin Senior Director of the Energy and Climate Change Program at the WorldWatch Institute Aug. ’12 (Janet, "Climate Change Poses Greater Security Threat than Terrorism," http://www.worldwatch.org/node/77, Mike)
As early as 1988, scientists cautioned that human tinkering with the Earth’s climate amounted
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carbon, with meaningful long-term targets that incorporate gradually declining caps. 

Scientific Consensus Based on Climate Models and Observational Data That Warming is Real and Anthropogenic

By Joe Romm on 8/28, 2012 at 12:29 pm OE ROMM is a Fellow at American Progress and is the editor of Climate Progress "Meteorological Society: Warming Is ’Unequivocal’, We’re The ’Dominant Cause’, We Need ’Rapid Reduction’ Of CO2"
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/28/757991/meteorological-society-warming-is-unequivocal-were-the-dominant-cause-we-need-rapid-reduction-of-co2/
The American Meteorological Society has updated and strengthened its statement on global warming.¶ Here
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, amplifying the impact of human-induced increases in other greenhouse gases….

Independently Energy leadership is uniquely key to soft power- absent plan signal warming is inevitable and there is a higher risk of prolif and instability

Lugar 8 (Richard, US senator, Jan., http://lugarenergycenter.iupui.edu/forum.html)
Third, energy is the underlying condition that exacerbates almost every major foreign policy issue
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and Azerbaijan. Those benefits can also be reaped in Central Asia¶ .

Soft Power key to solve multiple extinction scenarios
Joseph Nye, professor of international relations at Harvard University, 2008 or later (n.d.) ("American Power After the Financial Crises," http://www.foresightproject.net/publications/articles/article.asp?p=3533)-http://www.foresightproject.net/publications/articles/article.asp?p=3533
Power always depends on context, and in today’s world, it is distributed in
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even the largest country cannot achieve its aims without the help of others.

Environmental Leadership is Key to Shaping the Durban Platform

by Elliot Diringer Executive Vice President at C2ES 05/18/2012 Climate Negotiators Open A New Round  http://www.c2es.org/blog/diringere/climate-negotiators-open-new-round-bonn
A new round of climate talks opened this week in Bonn, Germany, with
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the talks along, the real work right now is back at home.

Success of the Durban Platform Creates a Relationship of Mutual Trust Between the US and China

Alvin Lin is the China Climate and Energy Policy Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council and Michael Davidson is the US-China Climate Policy Coordinator at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Durban Climate Talks and Bridging the Trust Gap December 19, 2011
After a marathon session into early Sunday, the climate talks in Durban concluded this
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world will have a chance of coming together to effectively address climate change.

Relations prevents extinction – it is the only way to solve economic stability, terrorism, crime, prolif, and disease spread.

Wenzhong, PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2-7-4 (Zhou, "Vigorously Pushing Forward the Constructive and Cooperative Relationship Between China and the United States," http://china-japan21.org/eng/zxxx/t64286.htm)
China’s development needs a peaceful international environment, particularly in its periphery. We will
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countries, we will see even greater accomplishments in China-US relations.
The administration JUST approved new solar incentives- triggers all links
Clean Technica 10/13/2012 (New Obama Solar Energy Blueprint Paves Way for Additional 23.7 GW of Green Power, http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/13/new-obama-solar-energy-blueprint-paves-way-for-additional-23-7-gw-of-green-power/)
Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar on Friday announced a federal blueprint for large-scale
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and pledge to boost renewable energy and green economic growth in the US.

Wind is ALREADY a big public issue- both sides are using the PTC specifically already

CBS News 9/10/2012 (Obama seeks to exploit GOP divide on renewable energy, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57493322/obama-seeks-to-exploit-gop-divide-on-renewable-energy/)
There was some big talk on energy Tuesday on the campaign trail. President Obama
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many experts say former Governor Romney’s plan doesn’t focus on reducing that demand.