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Topicality.....................................................................................................................................................................1
Topicality.........................................................................................................................................1
A2: ASPEC.................................................................................................................................................................3
A2: ASPEC.....................................................................................................................................3
T – USFG (Not performance).....................................................................................................................................4
T – USFG (Not performance).......................................................................................................4
T – Substantially (Not Minor).....................................................................................................................................5
T – Substantially (Not Minor).......................................................................................................5
T – Alternative Energy (Renewable)...........................................................................................................................6
T – Alternative Energy (Renewable)............................................................................................6
T – Alternative Energy (Not Nuclear).........................................................................................................................7
T – Alternative Energy (Not Nuclear)..........................................................................................7
T – Alternative Energy (Not Conservation)................................................................................................................8
T – Alternative Energy (Not Conservation).................................................................................8
T – Incentive (Positive)...............................................................................................................................................9
T – Incentive (Positive)..................................................................................................................9
Alternative Energy Incentive (Not Regulation)........................................................................................................10
Alternative Energy Incentive (Not Regulation)........................................................................10
Alternative Energy Incentives (Funding for Development)......................................................................................11
Alternative Energy Incentives (Funding for Development).....................................................11
Alternative Energy (Not Fossil Fuels)......................................................................................................................12
Alternative Energy (Not Fossil Fuels)........................................................................................12
Alternative Energy (Not Fossil Fuels, Gas, Coal, Nuclear Power)...........................................................................13
Alternative Energy (Not Fossil Fuels, Gas, Coal, Nuclear Power)..........................................13
Alternative Energy (Natural Gas).............................................................................................................................14
Alternative Energy (Natural Gas)..............................................................................................14
Alternative Energy (Not Natural Gas)......................................................................................................................15
Alternative Energy (Not Natural Gas).......................................................................................15
Alternative Energy (Not Nuclear Power)..................................................................................................................16
Alternative Energy (Not Nuclear Power)..................................................................................16
Alternative Energy (Renewables).............................................................................................................................17
Alternative Energy (Renewables)...............................................................................................17
Alternative Energy (Fluid Meaning).........................................................................................................................18
Alternative Energy (Fluid Meaning)..........................................................................................18
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Incentive (Motivator)................................................................................................................................................19
Incentive (Motivator)...................................................................................................................19
Incentive (Not Regulation)........................................................................................................................................20
Incentive (Not Regulation)..........................................................................................................20
Incentive (Positive)...................................................................................................................................................21
Incentive (Positive).......................................................................................................................21
Incentive (Negative or Positive)...............................................................................................................................22
Incentive (Negative or Positive)..................................................................................................22
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A2: ASPEC
We meet – the USFG is our actor. They lose zero ground.
3. No ground loss. We don’t weasel out of links. Don’t vote on potential abuse.
5. CX checks – aff’s have the right to clarify, it’s their burden to get clarifications
6. Process counterplans aren’t negative ground. They beg the question of the resolution,
focus debate on minutia instead of substance, decrease education, force vague plan writing
and steal aff ground
B – Violation – The affirmative does not defend Federal Government action – only personal
discourse
C – Standards –
1 – Limits and predictability– there are an infinite number of personal advocacies
that we could never prepare for.
2 – Ground – we can’t read attacks on individual advocacies because no one writes
about college debaters and what they think we should do. Additionally, they can shift
out of all of our core negative strategies, which all assume governmental action.
3 – Education – Plan-focused education is key to good decision making – personal
discourse encourages negative teams to run theory, hindering education.
B - Violation - the affirmative only decreases total consumption a minor amount. It is the
aff’s duty to show their overall significance to energy policy as a whole.
C - Standards
1 - Limits - there are infinite numbers of small decreases in consumption and only a
limited number of great ones. The negative interpretation is most predictable. The
aff justifies cases that only deal with a small subset of consumption like the
manufacture of cosmetics
2 - Ground - Our definition prevents the aff from spiking out of our politics or
spending links, claiming that the plan won’t be perceived or cost much.
3 - Stock Issues - our definition forces the affirmative to meet the burdens of stock
issues.
D - Voters -
Fairness
Education
Ground
Jurisdiction
Resolutional Question
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B – Violation – Plan incentivizes an energy source that relies on finite and non-renewable
natural resources
C – Standards
Limits – Our definition excludes cases like oil drilling and Nuclear Power, but still allows
good aff cases like RPS or Solar Power. Limits are key to in depth education and clash
Ground – we can’t read evidence about renewables, which destroys predictable pre-round
preparation
D – Voters – Topicality is a voter for fairness and ground and because the aff must
unconditionally prove the resolution is true
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B – Violation – the plan provides an incentive for nuclear power, which is not alternative
energy because it relies on the mining of uranium, which is a finite resource
C – Standards
Limits – Our definition excludes cases like Natural Gas and Nuclear Power, but still allows
good aff cases like RPS or Solar Power. Limits are key to in depth education and clash
Ground – we can’t read evidence about renewables, which destroys predictable pre-round
preparation
D – Voters – Topicality is a voter for fairness and ground and because the aff must
unconditionally prove the resolution is true
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B – Violation – Plan doesn’t increase alternative energy. It only decreases and conserves
traditional energy
C – Standards
Limits – Their definition allows any affs concerned with energy efficiency like CAFÉ.
We allow affs that encourage the development of new technology like OTEC and
Solar Panels
Education – The core topic question is about conservation vs. innovation – this is the
only way to access topic-specific education concerning ecological sustainability
D – Voters – Topicality is a voter for fairness and ground and because the aff must
unconditionally prove the resolution is true
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T – Incentive (Positive)
A – Definition – Incentives are positive inducements that reward desired behavior
Princeton Wordnet 3.0, Online, 2008
# S: (n) incentive, inducement, motivator (a positive motivational influence)
B – Violation – The plan is not an incentive – it merely discourages traditional energy use
Carbon Tax only makes it harder to use carbon rather than easier to use renewables
Legalizing Hemp only removes a legal barrier to alternative energy
Removing Ethanol tariffs only removes a legal barrier to alternative energy
CAFÉ standards only punish high emission standards rather than incentivizing new technology
C – Standards
Limits – We exclude cases like Carbon Tax and CAFE while still allowing simple
funding affs and tax breaks
Ground – We can’t read spending or politics because the aff will claim that they only
remove a barrier to alternative energy development
Education – The discussion of incentives vs. regulations is key to the central topic
question, which is the role of the government in market manipulation
D – Voters – Topicality is a voter for fairness and ground and because the aff must
unconditionally prove the resolution is true
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More evidence
Cygnus Renewable
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:mRiBxTOQ1TEJ:www.cygnusrenewable.com/page2.html+%22is+not+a+fos
sil+fuel%22,+uranium&hl=en Accessed 2004
Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas come from biomass which was produced in the distant past and
has been transformed by geological activity. World reserves of fossil fuels are finite and are being
depleted. They are therefore referred to as non-renewable energy resources. Uranium for the generation of
nuclear energy is not a fossil fuel, but still requires the depletion of finite physical reserves so it is
included as a non-renewable energy source.
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More
MSN Encarta Online Dictionary, 2008
naturally generated energy source: any form of energy obtained from the Sun, wind, waves, or another
natural renewable source, in contrast to energy generated from fossil fuels
Incentive (Motivator)
An incentive is a motivator
MSN Encarta Online, 2008
something that encourages somebody to action: something that encourages or motivates somebody to do
something
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Compact Oxford English Dictionary 2008
• noun a thing that motivates or encourages someone to action or increased effort.
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Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary, 10th edition 2008
something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action
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Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary Online, 2008
something which encourages a person to do something: Tax incentives have been very effective in
encouraging people to save and invest more of their income. [+ to infinitive] There is little incentive for
people to leave their cars at home when public transport remains so expensive. Bonus payments provide an
incentive to work harder.
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Incentive (Positive)
Incentives are positive rewards for behavior
Electric Power Research Institute, 2005 , “A coalfleet working paper,”
http://www.cis.state.mi.us/mpsc/electric/capacity/cnf/central/igcc_incentives.pdf
This paper presents EPRI’s analysis of the effectiveness of eight alternative Federal financial incentives that
have been proposed to mitigate IGCC’s higher costs and risks. The intent of these incentives is to lessen the
cost differential between IGCC and conventional coal technologies so that an initial set of IGCC plants will
be deployed, allowing future experience based reductions in cost and improvements in performance that
could make IGCC commercially viable. The incentives analyzed include: loan guarantees, direct Federal
loans, Federal cost sharing grants, investment tax credits, production tax credits, tax-exempt financing,
accelerated depreciation, and Federal availability insurance. The analysis looks at the usefulness of each
incentive for three types of project owners: regulated investor-owned utilities (IOUs), independent power
producers with a power purchase agreement (IPPs), and public power (including cooperative, Federal,
municipal, and state entities