"First you wonder whether the Senator’s new love of drilling is an epiphany or just a great campaign issue."
Well militant, It's both. Newt's new organization which has sponsored the drill here drill now pay less petition has garnered almost a million and a half signatures. Poll after poll after poll show that americans want the trillion barrel domestic reserves opened up to drilling. So to Senator McCain it is an epiphany and a great campaign issue.
If there is a reason no energy bill has passed in the last few months that is because both sides are playing politics with the issue but you can place the lions share of the blame on the Democratic leadership, they have developed several bills which would have no chance of making it past the President's desk. Rather than presenting a bill that would have a chance that would put back into effect alternative energy credits (several were presented but the Democratic leadership would have nothing to do with them) The Democratic leadership pushed through bills that would punish the mean evil and nasty oil companies or economy strangeling carbon cap and trade scheme's. BTW here is an idea of what McCain's energy policy will be.
John McCain's Clean Car Challenge. John McCain will issue a Clean Car Challenge to the automakers of America, in the form of a single and substantial tax credit for the consumer based on the reduction of carbon emissions. He will commit a $5,000 tax credit for each and every customer who buys a zero carbon emission car, encouraging automakers to be first on the market with these cars in order to capitalize on the consumer incentives. For other vehicles, a graduated tax credit will apply so that the lower the carbon emissions, the higher the tax credit.
John McCain Will Propose A $300 Million Prize To Improve Battery Technology For Full Commercial Development Of Plug-In Hybrid And Fully Electric Automobiles. A $300 million prize should be awarded for the development of a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars. That battery should deliver a power source at 30 percent of the current costs. At $300 million, the prize is one dollar for every man, woman and child in this country - and a small price to pay for breaking our dependence on oil.
John McCain Supports Flex-Fuel Vehicles (FFVs) And Believes They Should Play A Greater Role In Our Transportation Sector. John McCain Believes Alcohol-Based Fuels Hold Great Promise As Both An Alternative To Gasoline And As A Means of Expanding Consumers' Choices. John McCain Believes That The U.S. Must Become A Leader In A New International Green Economy. John McCain Will Commit $2 Billion Annually To Advancing Clean Coal Technologies. John McCain Will Put His Administration On Track To Construct 45 New Nuclear Power Plants By 2030 With The Ultimate Goal Of Eventually Constructing 100 New Plants. John McCain Will Establish A Permanent Tax Credit Equal To 10 Percent Of Wages Spent On R&D. John McCain Will Encourage The Market For Alternative, Low Carbon Fuels Such As Wind, Hydro And Solar Power. Something I disagree with Senator on: John McCain Proposes A Cap-And-Trade System That Would Set Limits On Greenhouse Gas Emissions While Encouraging The Development Of Low-Cost Compliance Options John McCain Will Make Greening The Federal Government A Priority Of His Administration.
P.S. Speaker Pelosi invested up to 100K in T. Boon Pickens company this last May, maybe thats why she doesn't want domestic drilling?
But he also states, "Barack Obama did not vote on July 30 either — which is equally inexcusable in my book — but he did vote on three previous occasions in favor of the solar and wind credits. " Voting previously doesn't help in the here and now you know. Neither is "serious" about energy, they are only serious about getting themselves elected.
But in a sense that is neither here nor there. The question is not whether he will "vote" for alternate energy if he is president; presidents veto not vote, but why are you neglecting your current job here and now in your attempt to get your new job. If this is what you are doing now are you going just be about running for your reelection the moment you are elected? I am more than annoyed with his lack of voting during this campaign because that, not campaigning is what we, the people, are paying him for.
Battery technology? Who is he kidding, or hasn't he been briefed by the department of the obvious. In the 00's the best hybrid/electric battery technology was held in patent by Chevron / Texaco and they only let Toyota use it for straight hybrids only. Last news was a better system was developed and that's owned by Exxon / Mobil. The oil companies hold all the patents and any new technology will be grabbed by them and kept from the public. I can almost guarantee that!
This is a program that is working, as shown by the wind boom in Texas. The technology is beyond what most people think, and it's the best way to move toward energy independence while fighting global warming. To kill it is ludicrous.
I have no doubt that McCain is dead serious about his energy plan! While I disagree with him because it favors fossil fuels excessively, I think that he thinks that it will solve, to some extent, the problem. At that, he knows full well that drilling won't do a thing for the price of motor fuel. On that he is being disingenious. But what else is new?
What you state about battery technology is interesting and new to me. Could you provide some links to that information, or describe in quite a bit of detail, perhaps in an article?
Massive amounts of money are being put to bear on this, as the oil bidness isn't ready for our little butts to go independent on them, and the auto industry and their after market cohorts aren't ready to give up all the ancillary products they sell to support combustion engines. Think hoses, radiators, exhaust systems,filters, and a whole host of other products they make periodic money on as a car ages. Many of these have a low production cost, but they've spent years running up the retail cost. Hard to give up on long time greed.
GM snapped up one of those battery technologies and put a real kink in the miles of one electric plug in car that was about to launch, and had to re-plan for an inferior battery, I read. Made a big difference in their possible range, cutting it by a third.
And of course, GM says they don't have the battery technology for the Volt, which is a baldfaced lie, or, perhaps, they turned around and sold it to someone else they trusted not to release it to the mass of it's competitors, they sold it to Exxon, lol.
Trains shouldn't be allowed to play in traffic if overhead supported light rail (monorail) can be built. Our Met Council chairman compares the cost of light rail to the same technology built as an elevated version. Naughty, naughty.
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is an epiphany or just a great campaign issue."
Well militant,
It's both.
Newt's new organization which has sponsored the drill here drill now pay less petition has garnered almost a million and a half signatures.
Poll after poll after poll show that americans want the trillion barrel domestic reserves opened up to drilling.
So to Senator McCain it is an epiphany and a great campaign issue.
If there is a reason no energy bill has passed in the last few months that is because both sides are playing politics with the issue but you can place the lions share of the blame on the Democratic leadership, they have developed several bills which would have no chance of making it past the President's desk.
Rather than presenting a bill that would have a chance that would put back into effect alternative energy credits (several were presented but the Democratic leadership would have nothing to do with them) The Democratic leadership pushed through bills that would punish the mean evil and nasty oil companies or economy strangeling carbon cap and trade scheme's.
BTW here is an idea of what McCain's energy policy will be.
John McCain's Clean Car Challenge. John McCain will issue a Clean Car Challenge to the automakers of America, in the form of a single and substantial tax credit for the consumer based on the reduction of carbon emissions. He will commit a $5,000 tax credit for each and every customer who buys a zero carbon emission car, encouraging automakers to be first on the market with these cars in order to capitalize on the consumer incentives. For other vehicles, a graduated tax credit will apply so that the lower the carbon emissions, the higher the tax credit.
John McCain Will Propose A $300 Million Prize To Improve Battery Technology For Full Commercial Development Of Plug-In Hybrid And Fully Electric Automobiles. A $300 million prize should be awarded for the development of a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars. That battery should deliver a power source at 30 percent of the current costs. At $300 million, the prize is one dollar for every man, woman and child in this country - and a small price to pay for breaking our dependence on oil.
John McCain Supports Flex-Fuel Vehicles (FFVs) And Believes They Should Play A Greater Role In Our Transportation Sector.
John McCain Believes Alcohol-Based Fuels Hold Great Promise As Both An Alternative To Gasoline And As A Means of Expanding Consumers' Choices.
John McCain Believes That The U.S. Must Become A Leader In A New International Green Economy.
John McCain Will Commit $2 Billion Annually To Advancing Clean Coal Technologies.
John McCain Will Put His Administration On Track To Construct 45 New Nuclear Power Plants By 2030 With The Ultimate Goal Of Eventually Constructing 100 New Plants.
John McCain Will Establish A Permanent Tax Credit Equal To 10 Percent Of Wages Spent On R&D.
John McCain Will Encourage The Market For Alternative, Low Carbon Fuels Such As Wind, Hydro And Solar Power.
Something I disagree with Senator on:
John McCain Proposes A Cap-And-Trade System That Would Set Limits On Greenhouse Gas Emissions While Encouraging The Development Of Low-Cost Compliance Options
John McCain Will Make Greening The Federal Government A Priority Of His Administration.
P.S. Speaker Pelosi invested up to 100K in T. Boon Pickens company this last May, maybe thats why she doesn't want domestic drilling?
But in a sense that is neither here nor there. The question is not whether he will "vote" for alternate energy if he is president; presidents veto not vote, but why are you neglecting your current job here and now in your attempt to get your new job. If this is what you are doing now are you going just be about running for your reelection the moment you are elected? I am more than annoyed with his lack of voting during this campaign because that, not campaigning is what we, the people, are paying him for.
What you state about battery technology is interesting and new to me. Could you provide some links to that information, or describe in quite a bit of detail, perhaps in an article?
(thud!)
And that is exactly what the lobbyists will be trying to maintain, and they have a lot of money to push with!
BTW, where did you read that about a battery technology being absorbed and hidden?