Posted on 06/25/2008 1:12:26 PM PDT by kingattax
NcCain seems to be getting it. Good for him.
How about getting government out of the way so private industry can do it?
Wonder how cap and trade and vilifying the oil companies fit into this “plan”. /s/
Lots of nice verbiage.
However, unless includes Drilling Here, and Drilling Now, it just more pandering to the left by a man who for the last 7 years has been moving more and more left in his positions.
I am looking for a Leader not a panderer!
If he wants my vote, he’ll start being a leader.
This seems like borderline breaking news, if this is his first mission statement of this scope.
Energy policy can be a HUUUUUGE plus for McCain and republicans. The democrats have painted themselves into a corner with a bunch of malarky, and Obama is not backing down from it.
Didn’t Al Gore once say that the Internal Combustion Engine was a Crime Against Humanity?
I’m interested in the specifics of his plan for nuclear plants.
Is he planning to have the government build these plants? Will they be in competition with the privately owned electric utilities?
Or is he planning subsidies to the utilities to promote nuclear power?
All any president needs to do is open Yucca Mountain to handle the spent fuel until Congress can pass legislation getting intervenors out of the way of reprocessing. Then the utilities will be falling all over themselves to build new plants.
I guarantee you that when you see the details it’s going to look like a govt subsidy for evey conceivable green energy plan and will look a lot more like what is already going on except bigger and more expensive to the taxpayer. Call me a cynic if you like but McCain’s stand on those issues have always been along those lines except for his recent flip on drilling and that was political expediency.
...offshore drilling. drilling in ANWAR and emergency authorization to build new refineries on a timetable to bring them online to handle increased output from our new domestic drilling. (I wish)
Excellent news! Energy independence is only two thirds of a generation away.
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How about a crash program to get 150 nuclear power plants on line by 2015, 2018 at the latest? How about an executive order to start drilling off our shores withing six months? How about a rush program to exploit oil deposits on our soil?
There's no need to offer up vague plans that won't meet our needs for seventeen years. Get some backbone John. Do something that will really make a difference to this generation.
His plan for 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030, is downright laughable. By 2030 will need 200 or more new reactors, not 45. This guy is proposing goals that if met, wouldn't meet today's needs.
You’ve hit the nail on the head.
In the end, this is just going to be a giant taxpayer funded ‘go green’ plan.
How about Freepers finally grasp the fact a President cannot over turn Congressional Law with an Executive Order?
It means something to me. Specifically, its a pledge to use the power of the fed to further manipulate, and more likely exacerbate, the problem.
Juan Insanes handlers need to tell him to catch a clue and get the fed the hell out of the way.
My pledge if elected president is that if it generates energy then I work to green-light all unsubsidized private efforts.
Don’t get on him for his plan to build 45 reactors. That’s 45 more than the democrats will give us.
And 45 is a start. Keep in mind Roosevelt wanted the United States to produce 50,000 military airplanes during WW2. At the time, he was scoffed at as 50,000 was considered impossible. I think we built five times that many.
Say 45, put private industry into it, keep the enviro nazis at bay, and sure, we can get 45, we can get 450, there’s really no limit to what we can do IF government allows us.
It was my understanding that an Executive Order could be drafted to cover just about everything. Once drafted and activated, Congress would have to override it by a two-thirds majority. Is that incorrect?
My take on his 45 plants by 2030, is that he doesn’t really mean it. If he did mean it, he would have addressed a number that would have met our needs.
I know where you are coming from, but it’s my take that this guy is still playing smoke and mirrors. He’s been in the Congress of the United States since the early 1980s, and he hasn’t championed energy production once that I know of.
And when he does, he doesn’t even get the numbers right.
Thanks for your response. I appreciate it.
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