LOOK ALL I KNOW IS THAT COP SAID WE HAD TO TAKE THE BYPASSMcCain said the country should use its expertise to develop and improve alternative energy technologies, from hydrogen-powered vehicles to solar-powered electric plants. But in the short term, the country needs to use all of its energy resources, from coal and offshore oil, to move toward energy independence as quickly as possible, he said.
You notice nothing was said about using our oil reserves If he believes off shore drilling will impact gas prices now which he stated before it would not because it would take 5 to 7 years to get a producing well.
But for the point of this question it. Why not tap our oil reserves? Would that not have a faster impact?
Still another question if the price of gas hangs in the balance of drilling new wells off shore than why is gas going down in price with not a signal new well drilled off shore?
Are not our oil reserves not a resource?
But because of global warming concerns, the country should invest $2 billion a year in research and development in clean coal technology.
"We are sending $700 million dollars a year to countries that don't like us very much," McCain said of the nation's oil purchases. "Some of that money ends up in the hands of terrorist organizations. America cannot do this."
I wonder if this is the money McCain’s referring to?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/14/203232/585/547/551678
The Democratic National Committee criticized McCain's comments on alternative energy, saying he has "consistently voted with (President) Bush and Big Oil and against renewable energy and new energy jobs." McCain has voted against the kind of tax incentives that would promote investments in renewable energy and create new energy jobs consistently, the committee said in a release.
The party also criticized McCain's support of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. McCain’s about-face on Yucca “I would seek to establish an international repository for spent nuclear fuel that could collect and safely store materials overseas that might otherwise be reprocessed to acquire bomb-grade materials.
It is even possible that such an international center could make it unnecessary to open the proposed spent nuclear fuel storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.” John McCain, 5/27/08 McCain made his comments in Denver as part of a larger speech on nuclear power the day before he is scheduled to be in Northern Nevada, which is either one of the largest coincidences in the history of politics or a calculated strategy to help him win a pivotal swing state. (Not that he needs to be right on Yucca Mountain, which will probably factor into few Nevadans’ decisions in November, if history is any guide. Just ask the president.)
McCain’s proposal would seem more sincere if only he hadn’t been so sincerely committed to the dump — and been so unabashed and frank about his support.
But on the eve of his trip to Reno and on the eve of a general election in which Nevada could well be critical, the Straight Talk Express took a detour from its planned stop at Yucca Mountain.
McCain is an enthusiastic supporter of nuclear power and a fervent backer of Yucca Mountain as a suitable storage site. The evidence is plentiful: • In 2002, when final approval was assured after 20 years of debate, McCain told his home-state newspaper, The Arizona Republic, that the Nevada dump site would help the federal government resolve “one of the most important environmental, health and public safety issues for the American people.”And creating another:
• Just over a year ago, he was described as adopting a mocking tone when he told the Deseret News in Utah: “Oh, you have to travel through states ... I am for Yucca Mountain. I’m for storage facilities.
“It’s a lot better than sitting outside power plants all over America.”
• Less than three weeks ago, Reuters ran a piece that said McCain “supports the Yucca Mountain storage facility and believes opposition to it is harmful to U.S. interests.” And the piece quoted one of his advisers as saying,
“The political opposition to the Yucca Mountain storage facility is harmful to the U.S. interest and the facility should be completed, opened and utilized.”
So in the past few weeks, McCain has experienced an epiphany and decided there should be some sort of international repository for the fuel that he had so long wanted to come here? This is believable?
http://storybones.blogspot.com/2008/08/mccain-to-nevada-yeah-i-lied.html
Again not all the facts put out to the public.
The ad cites Senator John McCain’s support for storing nuclear waste in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, then shows an interview clip of Mr. McCain saying he would not be comfortable with nuclear waste traveling through Arizona, and specifically Phoenix, on the way to the storage site.
McCain proposes a plan to build 45 new nuclear plants before the year 2030.
"My experience with nuclear power goes back many years to being stationed on the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier
[the USS Enterprise],"
McCain said. "I knew it was safe then and I know it's safe now."
The accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in 1979, the last serious accident at a U.S. facility, occurred after McCain was no longer stationed on the Enterprise. . "I knew it was safe then and I know it's safe now."
Far be it from me to question his vast experience that only comes with age.
But a few points here.
1.He was a pilot not a maintainer . I retired 20 years in the A.F as aircraft Crew chief and never heard of a nuclear powered aircraft.
2. Nor was he the captain of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier
[the USS Enterprise] but with his ads he might fit into the TV. version
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEED6143FF937A15751C1A964958260
McCain Wants To Send Nuclear Waste through Ohio, But Not AZ
John McCain wants to nearly double the number of nuclear power plans in the nation
They estimate that McCain's plan would require about 6,612 casks, each carrying anywhere from 2-15 tons of high-level radioactive waste, being transported through Ohio.
But they point out that McCain opposes the idea of transporting waste through his home state of Arizona.
Why does John McCain think its ok for hundreds of tons of dangerous nuclear waste to go through Ohio but yet too dangerous to go through his own state?
John McCain simply can’t have it both ways when it comes to the nuclear waste issue.
Right now he supports running hundreds of shipments of dangerous nuclear waste through Ohio and sticking Nevadans with 77,000 tons of it forever, while at the same time saying he’s uncomfortable with it going through his own backyard for even a day.”
McCain"s stand on this issue much like helping an elderly person across the street to mug and steal their money out of site of the public.
Did McCain say Waste Repository or suppository for Nevadans ?
Other events of interest which seem to relate to current events.
Does McCain have anyone that isn't involved in world catastrophes?
McCain's top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was until March a registered lobbyist for the Republic of Georgia.
His firm continues to work on behalf of Georgia and other countries in the region.
In 2006, lobbyist Scheunemann accompanied McCain on a trip to Georgia. And since Friday, McCain and Scheunemann have been issuing bellicose pronouncements on behalf of Georgia in its conflict with Russia over the breakaway enclave of South Ossetia.
However neither of them mentioned that Scheunemann was a Georgian lobbyist.
The conflict in Georgia also brought attention to another complicating feature of McCain’s campaign: His ties to Republican operatives with extensive lobbying practices. Scheunemann was, until earlier this year, registered to lobby for the government of Georgia.
A public relations firm working for the Russian Federation pointed out Scheunemann’s lobbying past to reporters — a sign that McCain’s stance is not, for better or worse, being welcomed in Moscow — as did Obama’s campaign.
“John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser lobbied for, and has a vested interest in, the Republic of Georgia and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government,” said Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan, noting that the “appearance of a conflict of interest” was a consequence of McCain’s too-close ties to lobbyists.
The conflict in South Ossetia is complex and nearly every observer of the situation blames both Georgia and Russia for escalating the long-simmering tensions there.
As Ben Smith notes, Barack Obama issued a statement condeming the violence and urging both Georgia and Russia to end the conflict and avoid further escalation.
It was similar to the line taken by the Bush administration and virtually all other western nations, all of whom recognize that there's plenty of blame to spread around and little advantage to wade in immediately scoring points against one of the parties to the war.
Not John McCain, however. His statement was frankly confrontational toward Russia, which he blames exclusively for the fighting. McCain also calls for NATO to be inserted into the conflict, though Georgia is not a NATO member.
McCain also dusted off his bizarre call for Russia to be kicked out of The G-8. And Randy Scheunemann immediately tried to politicize the conflict - without however mentioning that he was a lobbyist for Georgia.
"Sen. McCain is clearly willing to note who he thinks is the aggressor here,” he said, dismissing the notion that Georgia’s move into its renegade province had precipitated the crisis.
"I don't think you can excuse, defend, explain or make allowance for Russian behavior because of what is going on in Georgia.”
He also criticized Obama for calling on both sides to show “restraint,” and suggested the Democrat was putting too much blame on the conflict’s clear victim.
“That's kind of like saying after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, that Kuwait and Iraq need to show restraint, or like saying in 1968 [when the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia] ... that the Czechoslovaks should show restraint,” he said.
As shown by the contrast between the reactions to the fighting in Georgia from Obama and McCain, the US cannot afford a president who is instinctively and immediately belligerent in every international crisis. Further, McCain is ensnared irretrievably by the lobbyists he's surrounded himself with. Americans can't be sure of knowing what kinds of conflicts of interest lie behind John McCain's pronouncements on both foreign and domestic issues.
The parallel to McCain's problems this week with voters in Wilmington, OH is striking. In his latest visit there, McCain tried to downplay the role that his campaign manager, Rick Davis, had in lobbying for the DHL deal that now threatens to leave tens of thousands unemployed in southern Ohio. Indeed, McCain personally had intervened in the Senate to push the DHL deal through.
Yet as Obama manager David Plouffe pointed out, until the Cleveland Plain Dealer this week uncovered Davis' role as a lobbyist for DHL, McCain had tried to keep concerned Ohio voters in the dark about that most basic of facts:
Thourgh a strange twist in current events McCain Wants To Send Nuclear Waste through Ohio, But Not AZ .
Hummm I guess this McCain's way of bringing them out of the dark.
"[John McCain] was there a month ago in this community and was asked a question about this DHL issue and did not say one word about his role in this or the role of his campaign manager.
That is the furthest thing from straight talk that I can imagine."
McCain's lobbyist entanglements will keep getting worse as this campaign progresses. I hope this will to keep him out of the White House, where his lobbyist buddies don't belong.
http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2008/08/does-mccain-have-anyone-that-isnt.html
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