Unfortunately, certain elements of environmental policy are constantly conflated with other policy imperatives. Perhaps the most salient and recent is the intermixing of energy independence and sustainability. The former being a national security imperative with a very unique set of circumstances and the former being a uniquely environmental issue. Many candidates, early on in this current election season chose to conflate these two issues. Recently, Hilary Clinton has found another issue to obfuscate legitimate environmental policy creation. She argues that money must be allotted towards renewable energy technologies in order to create jobs that won’t be outsourced. This sort of protectionist paradigm does neither engages reality or seeks an optimal solution. Hopefully, many of the jobs will be outsourced. I genuinely desire that these technologies are produced accessibly on a large scale that they can be created in other countries at a cheaper cost.