McCain on Energy
Here's the latest ad from the McCain campaign.
Nice. ;)
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Here is video of remarks made by Sen. John McCain in Jackson, Ohio yesterday, August 6, 2008. McCain calls for an "Economic Surge" in the United States, with the focus and intensity that brought about the great success of the "Surge Strategy" in Iraq.
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Here is a local news report on Sen. John McCain's remarks on energy while campaigning in the Philadephia, Pennsylvania area on August 4, 2008. The report gives a very good synopsis of Barack Obama's attempt to shift slightly his opposition to offshore drilling, while John McCain is calling for clear expansion of offshore drilling to meet the challenge of high gas prices.
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Senator McCain has gone on record saying that we need to increase our Nuclear power capabilities. Today he called for 45 new ones to be built by 2030.
"Every year, these reactors alone spare the atmosphere from the equivalent of nearly all auto emissions in America. Yet for all these benefits, we have not broken ground on a single nuclear plant in over thirty years," he said. "And our manufacturing base to even construct these plants is almost gone."
Even so, he said he would set the country on a course to build 45 new ones by 2030, with a longer-term goal of adding another 55 in the future.
"We will need to recover all the knowledge and skills that have been lost over three stagnant decades in a highly technical field," he conceded.
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Over at US News & World Report, James Pethokoukis lays out how Senator McCain can use energy as an issue to defeat Barack Obama in November.
"Climate change is never going to rise to the status of a top-tier political issue" is how one top climate-policy expert recently described the political lay of the land to me. Just take a look at the results of a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The top issue for voters (27 percent) was job creation and economic growth. Right behind was the war in Iraq (24 percent). Then came energy and gas prices (18 percent). Far down the list were the environment and global warming, at a minuscule 4 percent. So despite all the media attention on global warming as an existential threat to humanity, it still scores a bit below illegal immigration in the hierarchy of voter concerns.
And there lies an opportunity for John McCain to turn the issues of energy and the environment to his advantage in his race against Barack Obama. Here are a few pieces of advice for Team McCain that I have gathered after talking to some political folks in recent days.
Follow this link for the 7 ways.
Hat Tip: Instapundit
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Source:NYTJohn McCain says that he believes that States should decide whether or not to allow offshore drilling for oil. However, he also believes that the Federal Government could offer some "incentives" that would encourage them to do so.
I am all for offshore drilling. Especially off the coast of Florida where Cuba and China have already begun the process.
From Reuters
McCain backs incentives to boost offshore oil
By Tim GaynorROCHESTER, Mich., May 7 (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain said on Wednesday he would support incentives to encourage states to develop potential oil fields but would not try to force them to exploit potential resources, especially in environmentally sensitive areas.
"I do believe that we should drill for it," he said when discussing oil exploration at a town hall meeting in Rochester, Michigan. "But I am a federalist and I believe in the rights of states to make those decisions."
He said he believed the U.S. government could do more to encourage states to develop their resources. read more »
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This video is from Senator McCain's visit yesterday in Des Moines Iowa.
