Newt Beats Mitt on Energy Gingrich has revolutionary ideas,
while Mitt enlists Bush-era bureaucrats.  Newt and Callista
Gingrich film We Have the Power Robert Zubrin  In the race for
the Republican nomination, instead of focusing on where the
front-runners differ on policy, most of the commentary has
focused on their contrasting personalities, putative past
malfeasances, campaign gaffes, debate performances, and other
atmospherics. This is unfortunate, because in the critical area
of energy policy, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are as different
as night and day.  Newt Gingrich has been advancing the cause of
American energy independence for years. In 2008, for example, he
published a book entitled “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” and
produced a movie, We Have the Power, making the same points.
When oil prices soared above $130 per barrel that year, he used
these materials to launch a nationwide petition campaign for
expanded drilling, which gathered several million signatures and
provided the GOP with one of