Mitt Romney

Oil, oil, oil! (Photo by davelawrence8)

Mitt Romney is rolling out a new energy plan [PDF]. It basically amounts to “drill, baby, drill,” plus enough padding to fill up 21 pages.

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But don’t take our word for it. Let Romney’s words speak for themselves. Here’s how many times key energy terms appear in the document.

oil: 154

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natural gas: 36

drill/drilling/driller: 30

offshore: 27

independence:  23

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coal: 15

solar: 14

pipeline(s): 11

fracking/hydraulic fracturing: 10

wind: 10

Keystone: 9

nuclear: 7

hydro/hydropower/hydroelectric: 6

renewable: 3

Solyndra: 2

carbon dioxide: 1

greenhouse gas emissions: 1

efficiency: 1

smart grid: 0

sustainability: 0

climate: 0