More energy talk, more skirmishing
John McCain and Barack Obama were back today in battleground states, promoting their energy plans and slamming each other along the way.
McCain plans an event in Racine, Wisc., with the buzz over his new TV ad ridiculing Obama as the "biggest celebrity in the world" still reverberating in the political world. The Republican is continuing to bash Obama for being "Dr. No" by opposing offshore oil drilling.
McCain today also mocked Obama for a suggestion to improve gas mileage.
"Yesterday, he suggested we put air in our tires to save on gas," McCain said. "My friends, let's do that, but do you think that's enough to break our dependence on Middle Eastern oil? I don't think so. So I believe that every energy source needs to be part of the solution. We need to develop new alternative energies like wind, solar, tide, biofuels, but we also need to develop more existing energies like nuclear power and clean coal."
Obama, meanwhile, is holding a town hall meeting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the state that catapulted him to the front of the Democratic pack. His surprise victory in the January caucuses positioned him as the front-runner, a status he never really gave up before finally clinching the nomination in June.
He is responding to the string of negative ads from McCain by telling voters that Republicans are trying to scare them and make him look like a risk, when the real risk is not changing from the Bush administration's disastrous policies.
Obama said Washington has failed to address the energy crisis, and said that McCain is offering only more tax breaks for big oil companies and the mirage of offshore oil drilling.
"While this won’t save you at the pump, it sure has done a lot to raise campaign dollars," Obama said in prepared remarks. "Last month, Senator McCain raised more than a million dollars from oil and gas company executives and employees – most of which came after he announced his drilling plan in front of a bunch of oil executives in Houston. This is not a strategy designed to end our energy crisis -- it’s a strategy designed to get politicians through an election, and that’s exactly why Washington has failed to do anything about our energy dependence for the last 30 years."
And even if all the offshore drilling is successful, pumping away like mad, there is NO guarantee that any of that oil will ever be sent to the US, not one drop. Ever hear of the spot market? Once the crude is on the ship, that ship load can be sold to the higest bidder....if that bidder is China or India, that's where it will go...
Bravo for the MoveOn.org ad. Voters are trying to find any excuse at all to vote against Obama, McCain aims to give them that excuse, but in the face of the facts of the oil industry, which voters know so precious little about even after the years their being manipulated by this industry, it might just make them hesitate a bit.
I agree, Joe
John Mccain has not got a clue as to what he is talking about. The man says anything off the top of his head. We would have the same policies as Bush if this man is elected. The Gop has nothing to do but run negatives ads about OBAMA.
Reasons for that , they have no plans other than Bush's policies.
John Mccain has not got a clue as to what he is talking about. The man says anything off the top of his head. We would have the same policies as Bush if this man is elected. The Gop has nothing to do but run negatives ads about OBAMA.
Reasons for that , they have no plans other than Bush's policies.
drilling right now is the thing to do. even if it does reach the open market. which we do have a choice to make it hit or not hit the open market. it's our oil. there is this sticky little mechanism called market forces. supply & demand supposedly would lower the price of this on the futures market with threat of this alone. but only if it actually happens. again we do have a choice whether we put or nations reserves on the world market. but even if we do not exercise this right market forces will determine the price, which will be lower. But we should do this as well as conserve, and use viable alternatives, butr forget about pipe dreams like hydrogen, or ethynol. real alternatives that don't need subsidy's if something is viable it will be profitable from the start. if crystaline methane prevaleance is true, then we owe it to ourselve to use as mutch of it as possible to convert it to c02 before it escapes into the atmosphere as methane.
drilling right now is the thing to do. even if it does reach the open market. which we do have a choice to make it hit or not hit the open market. it's our oil. there is this sticky little mechanism called market forces. supply & demand supposedly would lower the price of this on the futures market with threat of this alone. but only if it actually happens. again we do have a choice whether we put or nations reserves on the world market. but even if we do not exercise this right market forces will determine the price, which will be lower. But we should do this as well as conserve, and use viable alternatives, butr forget about pipe dreams like hydrogen, or ethynol. real alternatives that don't need subsidy's if something is viable it will be profitable from the start. if crystaline methane prevaleance is true, then we owe it to ourselve to use as mutch of it as possible to convert it to c02 before it escapes into the atmosphere as methane.
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