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McCain isn't qualified to be President either.

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Posted by: fossten

This guy is totally ignorant.

McCain Says Gas Prices Won't Drop

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:30 AM

WASHINGTON -- Record high prices for gasoline probably won't drop any lower before the November election, Republican John McCain said Wednesday.

"I don't think it's going much lower, and it could go higher," McCain said on NBC's "Today Show." "I don't think so, not when you've got a finite supply, basically, and a cartel controlling it."

McCain said oil companies should "absolutely" return some profits to consumers.

"And they should be embarking on research and development that will pay off in reducing our dependence on foreign oil," he said.

"The point is, oil companies have got to be more participatory in alternate energy, in sharing their profits in a variety of ways, and there is very strong and justifiable emotion about their profits," McCain said.

Posted by: jbird97

Its ok, he was a prisoner of war... anyone else get sick of him trying to use that excuse as a meal ticket for everything?

Posted by: Calabrio

Context. He used a poor choice of words, but that article is distorting what he said. He is notin favor of windfall taxes or redistributing profits.

Gas prices are not going to drop considerably before the election.
The available supply of oil is finite, we're not going to be expanding supply within the next few months.

I take issue with his greenhouse gas concerns, but otherwise what he said was right.

If you watch the entire interview that's apparent.
VIDEO CLIP:
http://blogsforjohnmccain.com/mccain...ay-video-61108

He's vastly different on the subject of energy when compared to Obama.

Posted by: fossten

McCain: Why, drilling in ANWR would be like drilling in the Grand Canyon

posted at 3:47 pm on June 11, 2008

by Allahpundit

He says what he means and he means what he says, even when it’s really stupid. How rote are his talking points on this issue? January 16, 2008 conference call with bloggers:

Quote:

Mike Goldfarb: Some people are perplexed by your rhetoric on global warming. Is this one of those ‘no surrender’ issues, or is there room for discussion?
McCain: There’s always room for discussion. But I don’t know how any conservative can not support cap and trade. We did it with acid rain. The Europeans are putting it into effect. It’s a capitalist process that encourages green technologies. If we’re wrong, all we’ve done is adopt green technologies, in an effort to give our kids a greener planet.

As far as ANWR is concerned, I don’t want to drill in the Grand Canyon, and I don’t want to drill in the Everglades. This is one of the most pristine and beautiful parts of the world.

Goldfarb, incidentally, is now Team Maverick’s official blogger. Townhall meeting today in Philly:

Quote:

He wasn’t happy the subject came up. “I knew I should have ended this [before that question],” he said.

He said that he opposed drilling in ANWR for the same reason that he “would not drill in the Grand Canyon… I believe this area should be kept pristine.” (Proposed oil and gas exploration in ANWR would only affect 2,000 of its 19 million acres, or 0.01 percent.)

McCain’s chief virtue is also his vice: Economic and political circumstances may change, but gosh darn it, he’s sticking to his guns come what may.

You’d better come up with one honey of a VP pick, Maverick.

Exit question: How high do gas prices have to get before that precious 0.01 percent starts to look somewhat less pristine? Do we need to see actual gas lines? Or does Obama’s weakness here mean McCain can safely ignore this issue for the time being?

Posted by: fossten

Team McCain Conference Call: oil prices

posted at 1:10 pm on June 12, 2008

by Ed Morrissey

Rep. Eric Cantor started off by talking about the “shock” American families feel with high prices. The time for action has come, but Barack Obama’s comments yesterday show how out of touch he is with this shock. He says that Obama’s suggestion that the only problem is the rate of increase and not the price demonstrates that an Obama presidency would not improve matters. He is “out of touch”.

Doug Holtz-Eakin says that McCain is not “out of touch”, and touted his gas-tax holiday as an example. Again, they point out that Obama voted for such a holiday in Illinois. They then attacked Obama’s tax policies, which will hit taxpayers across the spectrum. John McCain wants to lower corporate tax rates, introduce incentives for modernization, and keep access to capital easy through lower tax rates on capital gains and dividends. Holtz-Eakin makes the rather common-sense case that tax increases on business get passed on to consumers, creating inflationary pressures and not real growth.

Questions:

Quote:

Amanda Carpenter — How about drilling in ANWR, and where else can we drill? — Still opposed to ANWR but is open to more production on federal lands.

Jeff Mason, Reuters — Gas tax holiday got panned by economists and backfired on Hillary Clinton. Is there feedback that says it’s politically adept? — McCain feels that it’s right, and can be done quickly and simply. It’s not a panacaea.

James Pethrokoukis — Won’t a cap & trade plan force higher energy prices? — McCain’s plan has generous use of offsets, as well as incentives for modernization. The realistic model shows price increases in the future.
Carol Costello, CNN — Why not draw up legislation now for the gas-tax holiday? — He did, and the Democrats blocked it. Cantor says it got blocked in the House as well.

John McCain is not going to find many votes here by splitting the difference. We have enormous resources on federal lands — an estimated 1.5 trillion recoverable barrels of oil in shale, for instance — and he needs to take action to start accessing those reserves. That means allowing for drilling in the upper plains area, in Montana and the Dakotas, to recover oil from massive new fields as well. If he wants to preserve the 0.01% of ANWR that would get affected by the drilling, then he had better start taking action to find oil elsewhere.

The gas-tax holiday is a joke. Not only would it do nothing for prices as the demand would increase with the temporary price cut, it would only make the eventual price shock worse when the taxes got reapplied. It would save the average family less than the cost of two tickets to a major-league baseball game over the entire period. In fact, the next price shock would hit right before the election.

We already know where Obama stands on this issue: he likes the high prices, if not the speed at which they arrived. What will John McCain do differently? So far, his campaign and McCain himself have made themselves as clear as mud. We need a clear plan from the McCain campaign that includes massive new efforts to produce domestic supplies of oil, as well as nuclear power and more effort on renewables. They are missing the opportunity of a lifetime on this issue.

Posted by: MonsterMark

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Posted by: fossten

Wrong thread Bryan, this one is about McCain. You have started what, thirty other threads about Obama and you're trolling here?

Posted by: Gambini

yes Mccain sucks but who says that Obama is any better?

Posted by: fossten

Well, at least if Obama screws the country up, the Democraps get blamed.

Posted by: Gambini

True but theyll just call him a secret muslim that didnt tell the whole truth.. didnt lie.. like clinton no I didnt smoke weed I just inhaled it? ok