Which candidate has a better plan for renewable energy?
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Artie Lange Fan asked:
I think this is incredibly important and I am trying to figure out who has a better plan regarding renewable energy.
I think this is incredibly important and I am trying to figure out who has a better plan regarding renewable energy.
It seems Obama is more specific about his goals in this area. All I hear from McCain and Palin is about offshore drilling.
What do you think?
RAFAEL
October 15th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
obama.
drilling is not the answer
October 16th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Obama is the only one with any plan.
October 19th, 2008 at 7:54 am
You are correct. McCain will drill, drill, drill.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Does McCain have one? He just says what we need to do, but I haven’t heard a lick of how he plans on doing it.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I agree that Obama has a better plan for renewable energy. He wants to put funding into solar and wind energy. Drilling is only going to be a short …. very short term solution. It is time for us to look into our futures and lead the way on energy solutions.
October 25th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Neither. Both will kill us with more illegals who dump garbage all over the place, killing the environment.
October 27th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Renewable energy is already in use… wind, solar, nuclear, water… what plan?
October 28th, 2008 at 11:46 am
McCain/Palin since they want to use nuclear like most of Europe does and Obama does not. McCain/Palin want to incorporate the entire basket of energy sources from wind, geothermal, tides, solar, coal, and oil to use until better sources such as hydrogen can be developed for practical use.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Renewable energy is currently a joke, and all the “We” campaign commercials won’t change that…
The only reason that we even HAVE windmills and solar powered plants is because of MASSIVE government handouts for this broken technology. If you want to fix the energy crisis, let us build nuclear plants. They are safer and cleaner then any other plant out there. There are only three so called nuclear disasters. Two were a direct result of Russia doing something INCREDIBLY stupid and outside the plants specs (Chernobyl was caused because they wanted to see how close to critical they could get.). And Three Mile Island was a plant responding to a situation exactly how they should have with absolutely no consequence, other then public stupidity.
October 30th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
hands down - mccain/palin
obama is about as cryptic as it gets on this topic
the primary difference between the two is this: McCain wants to do Nuclear in a big way. Barak has only recently been uttering the word, and I doubt he will actually do it. Other than nuclear, they are basically the same for all intensive purposes.
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:46 am
You have it pretty much right. Palin’s husband works for an oil company, so their only priority is to drill. President Obama plans to offer tax incentives to companies who use alternative energy and tax credits to family’s to help with the energy crisis.
November 5th, 2008 at 4:18 am
Obama. He’s talked about wind, solar, and improving cars and mileage standards. Drilling for more oil won’t help us lessen our oil addiction.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Obama definitely has the better plan for renewable energy because he is not going to make our country dependent on offshore drilling and foreign oil. He knows that there need to be alternatives and has been very clear on this issue. We can’t just keep on drilling and not have a backup because that would lead to chaos.
November 6th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Obama, he intends to fund alternative energy. McCain wants to keep drilling, which does little for energy prices and nothing for the environment.
November 6th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Obama of course, but Republican men won’t care. They will vote for S Palin because she’s got a hot body. I think we should enforce an IQ test in order to vote.
Democratic men are smarter than that. At least I hope they are.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Obama has not been specific at all, in my opinion. He does not have a comprehensive plan for energy, much less renewable energy.
McCain/Palin has a comprehensive plan called the Lexington Project on their website.
There are dozens of specific plans and ideas for energy. Hope this helps.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:24 am
If all you hear from McCain and Palin is drilling, you aren’t actually listening.
McCain and Palin have it right because you have to do BOTH. Anything else is unrealistic.
Since you don’t pay attention, McCain has pledged to explore alternative energies on the scale and with the drive that we used to get to the moon. Obama has no actual workable plan, just a lot of pie in the sky stuff.
November 8th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Obama has better plans for our energy needs
Off shore drilling isn’t going to solve our problems
I am supporting new means of alternative energy such as a coal,solar,hydro,cng etc
The need for oil is growing therefore i don’t think in the next 20 yrs the world will be able to fulfill the oil needs of the world considering we have very limited oil resources so ultimately we all have ( even if we don’t want ) seek transition into alternative energy
November 10th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Be very afraid of any plan for renewable energy
Market forces solve problems, central planing causes them.
November 11th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Actually, all I’ve heard from McCain/Palin is “all of the above.” They want offshore oil drilling, nuclear power, clean coal, hydroelectric, wind, solar, natural gas, and geothermal energy. They want to start us off by drilling for oil so we hand over less money to foreign governments that sponsor terrorism, which is a national security issue, and so we can get by until more clean energy sources are available and efficient.
Obama just wants us to quit oil cold turkey, which is irresponsible and refuses to use nuclear power plants, even though we haven’t built a new plant since the 70s. France currently has more than 80% of their power from nuclear energy sources, so why can’t America?
November 11th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Obama has stated that he will look for alternative solutions, including natural gas, solar and possibly more drilling. The US Dept of Energy said drilling in Anwar would lower the price of a BBL of oil 75 cents. so whats the rush?
November 13th, 2008 at 12:46 am
MCCAIN & PALIN
November 16th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Obama. McCain and Palin are working for the oil companies lobby.
November 19th, 2008 at 3:43 am
what you said!
Did ya see the convention?
the people with the oil rigs on their heads?
That’s their thinking……….off shore drilling will solve everything………feed the poor, fix the economy, raise the Titanic, and even get rid of bathroom scum!
It also makes great FERTILIZER……because that’s what that plan is…………..all B.S.
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:07 am
McCain.
Obama is in complete denial about our short term, intermediate and even long-term need for petroleum.
He deceives people when he tells them that we can eliminate our dependence on oil and that we can do it in a decade.
We can’t switch most of our use in even two or three decades and we will ALWAYS need petroleum.
McCain wants to pursue EVERYTHING. ALL alternatives.
If you think otherwise, you have not been listening.
Obama is willing to exclude some alternatives to placate some of his special interest supporters.
That is unacceptable if we are going to be energy independent.
He has been bought and sold.
November 24th, 2008 at 9:43 am
I think they both have good plans..
The biggest difference McCain offers incentives from the Government, and some funds. Obama offers the money up front.
He is offering a reward for the the company coming up with a battery, and he is outlining what that battery has to have. he is offering more than Obama is but.
Obama is offering the money up front. If they succeed, or do not.
Down sides to Obamas plan
To me the biggest difference is. If you have ever worked for a government contractor, they just try to find a way to spend the money, if they don’t spend it, they lose it. So they pay people more than needed, they have bigger Christmas parties, as well they stretch the research out over the time of the contract.
McCains plan is going to cause companies to compete, and no government money up front, no contract. McCains plan will encourage companies like ford, and GM.
If Ford, or GM is the loser in that race, they really do not lose, they get to use that technology any way.
Obamas plan will encourage companies wanting to win that contract, possibly companies that would then sell the technology to companies like Ford, GM. Would cost us more in the long run.
Other big difference McCain wants nuclear plants in 5 years, and he wants off shore drilling.
Obama recently flipped and said he would allow off shore drilling, so i don’t know if that he would or not.
McCains plan offers energy plan for the future, and sooner relief than Obamas plan.
November 27th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
putting ur neck on iABM sen.obama ‘ll be more like conmating suicide.
everything he’s saying sound real good,but if elected”,’ll he put them into action?that’s the big question.I hope it’s not just to win or polities asusual.
November 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
McCain has the more realistic plan. McCain wants to continue development of alternative energy sources while at the same time use existing technology to ensure that our energy needs are actually met.
Alternative energy has been promising great things for 30 years and has never delivered on its promises. It is foolish to assume that - contrary to past experience - alternative energy will produce a realistic energy supply in the next 10 years.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
McCain is definitely gonna drill, and Palin strengthens that orientation. Given that drilling will not impact our market prices for 10 years and then by negligible amounts. He has paid lip service to a few alternatives, with a small list of solar, geothermal and wind, because those are on every one’s lipsafter thee competitions speeches.
Obama is quite clear that drilling can be considered nothing more than a brief stop gap solution and that we need to turn to as many alternate techniques to answer our energy appetites as we can find. He stresses doing the research to come up with new energy frontiers, and following up on ones that have the least negative impact on theenvironmentt. He is also confident that this line of industry will create many jobs, and will encourage ourpopulationn to be more aware of the consequences of our energy intensive lifestyles.