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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

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