Rick Perry Wants to Put 1.2 Million to Work in Energy Industry

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said on Tuesday he wants to get 1.2 million Americans workingin the U.S. energy industry. Pledging to lay out an energy plan over the next three days, he vowed to "open up this treasure trove America is sitting on."

"You have an administration that ... through intimidation and overregulation ... is strangling entrepreneurs," the Texas governor said during a Bloomberg debate from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.

Declining to divulge details of his plan, Perry jabbed rival Mitt Romney's 59-point economic program, saying, "Mitt's been working on it for six years; I've been doing this for eight weeks."