Bernie's plans: It's not that they're liberal, it's that they're bunk

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34. Energy

Sanders does not propose shutting down all energy production over night.

Fracking: without fracking, US NG production will fall, but not stop. Fracking is a procedure used to improve or restore the production rate of a well. Without it the wells can still operate, but at reduced capacity. We'll have to curtail or end exports. That's manageable.

Nuclear: he wants to stop renewing licenses of nuclear plants. http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/fs-reactor-license-renewal.html It will be a while before they're all shuttered.

And there's always the obvious: reduce energy usage. Shutting off street lamps (not all of them) and billboard lights alone would save quite a lot of power with limited impact. Renovating the transmission system would save several entire power plants worth of electricity and it's within his energy plan.

So his positions are entirely attainable.

His other positions are also attainable.