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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: Homestead <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] McCain - dereliction of duty on energy
  • Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:13:01 -0500

The cost of energy to run our computers, vehicles and chainsaws will affect homesteaders everywhere. Both Obama and McCain have received money from Big Oil--as with most monster industries, they hedge their bets. McCain is dependably in their pocket. Obama appears more resistant.

Here is an excerpt from a Thomas Friedman column:

Given the fact that Senator McCain deliberately avoided voting on all eight attempts to pass a bill extending the vital tax credits and production subsidies to expand our wind and solar industries, and given his support for lowering the gasoline tax in a reckless giveaway that would only promote more gasoline consumption and intensify our addiction to oil, and given his desire to make more oil-drilling, not innovation around renewable energy, the centerpiece of his energy policy — in an effort to mislead voters that support for drilling today would translate into lower prices at the pump today — McCain has forfeited any claim to be a green candidate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/opinion/03friedman.html?em



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