Former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter on The New Energy Economy

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Mike talks to Bill Ritter Jr., director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University. Prior to that he served as Governor of Colorado from 2007 to 2011. During his term, Governor Ritter established Colorado as a national and international leader in renewable energy by building a New Energy Economy that's creating thousands of new jobs and establishing hundreds of new companies. He also enacted an aggressive business-development and job-creation agenda focused on knowledge-based industries of the future like energy, aerospace, biosciences, and information technology. Governor Ritter is also the author of ‘Powering Forward: What Everyone Should Know About America’s Energy Revolution’ Governor Ritter Recommends - The Advanced Energy Legislation Tracker (http://bit.ly/2w3qTs9) - Spot for Clean Energy (http://bit.ly/2w3js46) - Sue Tierney - The Analysis Group (http://bit.ly/2w3fbhf) - The Atlantic Magazine (http://theatln.tc/2w2Wdr5) This Week's Show is Sponsored By ZipRecruiter, where Politics Guys listeners can post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE by going to https://www.ziprecruiter.com/politicsguy Blue Apron. Check out this week's menu and get your first three meals free with free shipping by going to https://blueapron.com/tpg Politics Guys Insiders support the show and get exclusive extras like special updates, more commentary, additional episodes, and lots more. You can check it out and sign up at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/politicsguys or by clicking on the Patreon link at https://www.politicsguys.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:30.6	My guest today is Bill Ritter Jr., director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University.
0:35.5	Prior to that, he served as governor of Colorado from 2007 to 2011.
0:40.6	During his term, Governor Ritter established Colorado as a national and international leader in renewable energy by building a new energy economy that's creating thousands of new jobs
0:46.4	and establishing hundreds of new companies. He also enacted an aggressive business development
0:51.7	and job creation agenda focused on knowledge-based industries
0:55.3	of the future like energy, aerospace, bioservices, and information technology.
1:01.2	Governor Ritter is also the author of Powering Forward, What Everyone Should Know
1:04.9	about America's Energy Revolution.
1:07.2	Governor Ritter, welcome to the show.
1:10.0	Thank you. I appreciate being on the show, Mike.
1:12.7	So I'd like to start with just a little bit of background. How long have you been interested in renewable energy?
1:19.8	And what was it that got you interested in the first place?
1:24.2	It was a bit of an odd evolution. I was a prosecutor when I got out of law school.
1:29.7	I was a Catholic missionary living in Zambia for a few years.
1:33.8	I came back and soon after, I got back, I actually became the elected DA in Denver by appointment
1:40.8	and then ran for election.
1:42.0	So I was a prosecutor for most of my adult professional
1:45.7	life, and then I decided to run for governor after I was term limited as a prosecutor.
1:51.3	And I'd run for governor, and I didn't really know much about energy or environmental issues,
1:56.4	only what you might read in, you know, different newspapers or magazines around the country.
2:02.0	And so I was looking at issues where Colorado would view things in a campaign mode as
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