How come the Globe fails to mention that this type of exploration would take years to affect the price of gas?
How come they leave you with the impression that Obama is a TAX-RAISER, and that McCain is all for the ENVIRONMENT?!
Readers, the bias is so damn obvious its sickening.
"Warning that America's security is at stake, Senator John McCain called yesterday for conservation, renewable energy, and more aggressive exploration, steps he said would help to end US dependence on Middle East oil.
In laying out his energy policy, the presumptive Republican nominee sought to woo voters angry over $4-a-gallon gas and to carve out his independence from President Bush.
But by saying he would lift the federal ban on offshore drilling, he dismayed many environmental groups, which had praised him as an ally on global warming and had said either he or Democrat Barack Obama could provide the presidential leadership needed for real progress....
Straight talk, right, Globe?
McCain told cheering political leaders and oil industry executives in Houston yesterday:
"With gasoline running at more than four dollars a gallon, many do not have the luxury of waiting on the far-off plans of futurists and politicians."
Obama, in a statement, accused McCain of:
"The same Washington politics that has prevented us from achieving energy independence for decades. Instead of giving oil executives another way to boost their record profits, I believe we should put in place a windfall profits tax that will help to ease the burden of higher energy costs on working families, and we should invest in the affordable, renewable sources of energy that Senator McCain has opposed in the past."
Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, told reporters on a conference call organized by the Obama campaign [that] offshore drilling would threaten his state's all-important tourism economy and is not the solution:
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you can't drill yourself out of the problem. You have to turn to alternative fuels."
McCain responded to the criticism by bashing Obama on his support for a windfall profits tax on oil companies. Though Democrats said McCain suggested he was open to the idea just last month, McCain tried to use it to tie Obama again to Jimmy Carter's presidency.
Pfffft! Most people are saying, "Who, when?"
GET OUT of the PAST, McCain!!! This isn't going to help you win anything!
Taking the side of oil companies and citing Jimmy Carter's day?
McCain, in his Houston speech:
"If the plan sounds familiar, it's because that was President Jimmy Carter's big idea, too - and a lot of good it did us. Now, as then, all a windfall profits tax will accomplish is to increase our dependence on foreign oil and hinder exactly the kind of domestic exploration and production we need. I'm all for recycling - but it's better applied to paper and plastic than to the failed policies of the 1970s."
Why are you LIVING in the '70s, McCain?
I mean, I would LOVE TO GO BACK there; however, We ARE where we ARE!!
Why is that only good for keeping troops in Iraq, huh?
Despite their strong words, both McCain's and Obama's energy policies promise a stark departure not only from the 1970s, but from the Bush administration.
Sigh! Whatever, Globe.
While they differ on specifics, both McCain and Obama seem to understand that because 80 percent of greenhouse gases are emitted by fossil fuels, reducing US reliance on oil not only improves the nation's energy security and independence, but helps reduce global warming, many independent analysts say.
They just keep PUSHING and PUSHING the LIES and the AGENDA, don't they?
Manik Roy, director of congressional affairs for the nonpartisan Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Arlington, Va.:
"Both Senators McCain and Obama have been concerned about climate change for a long time. We're confident that both of them would be very strong leaders on this issue."
McCain is trying to feed perceptions of his independence from Bush on energy issues with a new TV ad, which he unveiled yesterday and will air in battleground states and on national cable.
After scenes of speeding traffic, belching smokestacks, and melting icebergs, the announcer declares:
"John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming five years ago...."
Then a year later, he HUGGED HIM!!!
Pffffffffttt!
Here, see if YOU can find any mention of the TIME FRAME:
Also see: Another Poll Finds Obama Leading In Historically-Red Virginia
I'll bet this endorsement helps McCain, 'eh?
Bush Calls for End to Ban on Offshore Oil Drilling
