ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SECTOR IN THE US: ANALYSIS OF PROSPECTS THROUGHT THE PRISM OF ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNS

Abstract

The article investigates the prosprcts of U.S. alternative energy industry through analysis of more recent electoral campaigns and electoral rhetoric of presidential nominees. This method seems to be no less effective for displaying possible scenarios of industry development in long-term perspective than that of economic projection, because they are political and ideological factors that primarily constitute a political course of today’s America. In the study the author attempts to prove that the stance of alternative energy sector within the US energy system depends on political situation as well as political affiliation of the US administration, rather than on economic imperatives.Purchase on Elibrary.ru > Buy nowDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2070-7568-2014-3-9

Keywords

• alternative energy
• U.S. energy policy
• Barack Obama’s energy strategy
• electoral campaigns