The Greater Houston Partnership held an energy forum Thursday to which all of the presidential candidates were invited and only one showed up: Hillary Clinton. Surrounded by folks from the energy industry, days before the crucial Texas primary, Clinton elected not to tell Big Oil what it wanted to hear. “I do not believe that now is the time when subsidies for the oil companies are necessary and appropriate,” she said in her speech. “It is now time to subsidize new forms of energy.” Clinton also boosted green-collar jobs, green building, solar power, and higher fuel-economy standards. The reaction of the business and energy bigwigs? “Polite but fairly tepid,” according to the Houston Chronicle.
