The front running GOP candidates, McCain included, all seem to be practicing a form of junk science Judo.
They say “OK, you care about the environment, how about more nuclear power plants and clean energy.”
I’m sure that is what their political consultants and advisors tell them to say.
Hope you're right. But I remember George H. W. Bush and his abrupt cutoff of freon. And does anyone remember the ill-fated and ill-conceived National Trip Reduction Act that was going to make employer enforced carpooling mandatory for everyone?
I won't go all the way back to Nixon and the EPA; but there has definitely been a history of kool-aid drinking in the Republican party on environmental issues.