(ChattahBox)—If the Republicans had their way, they would recreate our majestic American landscape into a grim terrain clogged with smog and pollution, scores of nuclear power plants and our natural environment defaced with strip mining, oil-shale drilling operations, “clean-coal” plants and oil refineries. Think of the bleak post-apocalyptic version of the world depicted in the cult film classic, “Mad Max” and you get the idea. The Republicans unveiled their response to the Democrats’ ener