McCain offers prize to fight foreign oil dependency
$300 million for a new batteryIf President, John McCain would like to create a $300 million prize for a battery that is at least 30 percent cheaper than today's and has "the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars." Likewise, he would give automakers a tax credit of $5000 for every zero emission vehicle.
I'm glad to see McCain focus some attention on this issue, but what about consumer incentives? Apparently, today's hybrid cars are worthless to McCain, so I guess McCain will just drill until the perfect solution is achieved?
Labels: Foreign Oil Dependency, Hybrid Vehicles
posted by Dahcredyns at
6:31 AM
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I wonder just how far we would have come in the last 8 years and how many new types of fantastic technology we could have developed IF we had spent that TRILLION dollars of murder money on something positive for this country.
Wouldn't it be nice to have known that kids in America have a solid school system and future to look foward to? Wouldn't it have been nice if we'd developed new alternative energy technologies that all of us could benefit from? Wouldn't it have been nice we could have fixed some, if not all of our healthcare issues in this country?
No..instead, we financed companies like Blackwater to be murderous scum.
Money well spent.
I don't remember Jimmy Carter as a President, but this is one issue where he was definitely far ahead of the curve. Imagine if we had listened then.
Back to McCain, I'm a little disappointed that his approach is basically driven top down. Why not bottom up as well? Why not put some power and some responsibility into the hands of consumers?
I wasn't too keen on this plan earlier today, but as I've heard Obama's people respond, I'm slightly more supportive. Over and over today, I've heard Obama's people bring up ethanol, which reminds of a speech Obama once had in Illinois where he attacked gas-guzzlers and then left in one, but justified it because it was a flex-fuel SUV. Following this, I quickly checked to see how many ethanol pumps were available in Chicago at the time - almost none. To me, that's the worst kind of hypocrisy.
McCain's record on quality energy policy isn't stellar, nor is Obama's, whom seems to act as if because he's done lots of talking, he's somehow a leader (Yes, I know he drives a hybrid now).
Instead of attacking each others record, I'd prefer both spend more time detailing how exactly they are going to change America's energy policy, including, especially, where the funding will come from.
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