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I have to hand it to McCain. He's looking at this from every angle. Even though his suggestion of battery powered vehicles is not new, at least he's looking. That's a whole lot more than Obama is doing. BO is just trying to make sure he has the female vote. All he's worried about is getting in. He has no plan, he doesn't have a clue on how to run a country, let alone any sense of foreign affairs. We don't need four more years of Clinton antics in the WH. McCain may be old, but at least he's trying to stay current.

Where is he going to get a plug in hybrid. This guy is just making it up as he goes along. It just depends on who's in front of him when he speaks. Do you really believe a man with all those oil lobbyist working for his campaign is working with him to stop their money from coming in. No they have no intention doing anything too change the energy policies.

His statements might be creditable if government officials weren't so blatantly self-serving.

Obama, as usual, can only make platitudes about spending money on this and that while McCain actually has specific proposals for dealing with our energy crisis on both the short- and long-term bases. Indeed, having a government fleet of flex-fuel and electric cars alone will not solve our energy crisis. But above anything else, it is a symbol of the government's willingness to lead by example and, if successful, will spur on more innovation by the entrepeneurs who will pull out the stops to discover and patent new green technology. McCain has been around long enough to know what works and doesn't work, so it is pretty pathetic to hear someone with NO experience, like Obama, to speak with such bluster and authority, when in reality he hasn't the foggiest idea of what to do.

And since when did we need the big hand of government to help out with this John? I thought it was the private sector and not the role of government to solve the energy crisis?

so tax payers will pay for someone to develope a new battery, will it then be part of public domain?

This is all just pandering – when it comes down to it you simply have to look at the politics over the last ten years. This country is in an economic and political tailspin. McCain insults his own intelligence by continuing to pimp his lame, spin-oriented ideas in this vain effort to keep his party in the Whitehouse after George Bush's eight year debarkle. It's no wonder the only viable candidate was a corpse. McCain should at least get some humor out of this by selecting Charles Manson as VP.

Anyway before this battery propaganda, the focus was on generating more US oil. Repubs trying to somehow ignore the last 8 years and scapegoat Clinton for not drilling in ANWR. Funny, the last time I filled up there was no shortage of gasoline in the pump. The reality is that the current administration has tanked the US economy to such an extend that we cant afford to compete in the World oil market.

Just another empty promise from a morally-confused, pandering, senile, angry old man.

Take your "already been there and done that" energy policies and GO AWAY! And Don't come back to Santa Barbara! You and your Greedy Oil People party are not welcomed here!
NO DRILLING! NO McSAME!

I think the Brazilians have already started this leadership back in the 70's. Where was our government leadership. They were with the oil companies and still are.

People – we can't rely on our corrupt government to fix anything. We spend billions a day on non-sense. What do you expect when we continue to elect knuckleheads.

MCCAIN FORGOT THE HELL FIRE OF CHERINOBAL THAT STILL BURNS IN ITS CEMENT TOMB!

WE DONT WANT NUCLEAR POWER! IT IS AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN! ONE QUAKE ONE HURRICANE AND OUR CHILDRENS CHILDEN WILL SUFFER!

HYDERGEN IS ALL WE NEED. TO LOWER GAS BY 50% IN 30 DAYS ALL WE NEED TO DO IS STOP THE FUTURES TRADERS, THEY ARE OUT OF CONTROL, THEY JUST ABOUT STARVED THE WORLD OF WHEAT AND WE TAX PAYERS HAD TO BAIL OUT THE THIRD WORLD FROM STARVING!

It doesn't matter how environmentally safe oil drilling is now. There's not enough to make us oil independent. Give a hungry man a piece of bread, he will eat now, but starve later. Teach him to make bread, he'll never be hungry again. This country needs oil rehab.

I would believe these words if it weren't for the simple fact that he wants to drill in protected areas. Sorry, can't say two opp. things McCain.

The best energy example for the government would be to kick the butt of Oil Lobby from the government. That would include Bush, McBush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and the whole Oil Mafia.

Saving tax payer money at the federal level by investing in fuel efficient cars? Reducing polution in an effort to protect private property rights? Opening up a state's right to choose to drill its own natural resources? This sounds very conservative to me and I love it.

Meanwhile Barack Hussien Obama is talking about sanctioning 3rd world countries and telling that I can't drive my SUV? Socialism? No, thank you.

JR, you missed the point. McCain is getting all his energy "advice" from military folks and spies who are a step away from an oil company's paycheck.

$4.00/ gallon gas will be the good ol' days unless some serious changes happen, and this guy and his folks aren't bringing it. And don't talk about not wanting to tax the oil companies, those greedy folks aren't hurting any more with $4 gas. You and I are.

I think Mccain is just a gimmick touting politician that will say and do anything to get elected.

Wasn't McCain the same person just the other day that said we needed to drill in anwar. This guy and the repubs are so flip floppy its crazy....

Yeah, Yeah.. McCain wants everything... more wars, more terrorist attacks, more unnecessary war spending.... so his sidekicks and lobbyists could benefit from him
OBAMA (2008 -16)

That for a change would be setting a good example... current government has set many examples also in last eight years...

Ooh which way did she go, Bob, which way did she go?

hey jr, exactly where was the price of gasoline pre9/11?..lets see would you believe 1.45 a gallon and oil was at around 40 dollars a barrell.Its all about the benjamins and the GOP should be labeled the Benjaman party.They,ther GOP have constantly been inour pockets over the las 8 years and most of you idiots think that JMccain will be better,get a grip he's Rep. and doesn't give a crap about everyday people

To the "formerly for Hillary now for McCain" group.

You admit that McCain is your second choice and not your first. So you're admitting that you really don't believe in McCain and his policies, now do you?

You flip-floppers should stay together...misery loves company

And I know that come next year, President Obama will be doing exactly this. And a lot better than you ever could.

Hey lizfor hillary clinton,

Are you trying to make yourself believe that????

Come on get real, HRC and Obama's policies were very similar starting out in their campaigns. I'm not call you prejudice but what else is there........

OBAMA 2008

Hmmm ,let me see Mccain wants to reward the most innovative idea with what...300 miilion dollars and where does that money come from.Your Pockets idiots.maybe he should make it 3 billion or trillion or whatever just another pork barrell spending idea form the GOP.If the GOP was true to its word they would have put into law the milage per gallon issue form 4 years ago, But nooooo.they only want big business to keep on raping the american public over and over again

Why don't McCain just go away!!!!!!!!!!!!

–Wisconsin June 24th, 2008 1:40 pm ET–
Yet McWar is all for drilling! A program that does nothing to make gas prices go down. Think about it in 10 years, when the oil finally hits the market, why would oil companies chose to loose money by adding to the supply???

Because they will not lose money. Adding more oil at lower price means they sell more and still make the same money. The Big Oil knows the market cannot support high prices forever, the only solution is to get more support and drop the price. If you think they don't know that then you really a Dem.

These are all good points taken from speeches that Obama has given across the US during the primary. So McCain was listening.

Obama has already met with GM and other American auto manufacturers about these issues. McCain, it's good to see you finally onboard. Better late than never.

Obama '08

I agree with McCain on this. Federal fleet cars should be the most fuel efficient/alternative fuel that we can find. This is the first thing McCain has said about energy that has made even a lick of sense. I'll still be voting for Obama, but I give credit to McCain on the rare occasion that such credit is due.

LB, why does the covernment need 60,000 cars....these include all types of cars and trucks...the government has millions of cars and trucks, as the get old and need replaced they replace them...it's a normal cost of doing busines.

How about you Know Nothing Dems sit back and wait for The word from God, I mean Obama when he gives his plans and policies...wait he doesn't have any, so I guess you all are voting for nothing.

Obama is the one full of lies. Lets see he's saying that drilling for oil will not have an impact for several years...ya McCain never said it was a solution that will show a return tomorrow....it's part of a long term solution. It's a small part. but a part. Making the government go a little greener, isn't a big part of the solution but it's a part. Putting money into alt energy is part, there are lots of parts. The key is putting all the parts into play...That's McCain's answer. What's Obama's answer....there isn't one.

who's idea did mccain steal

first he is going to give away 300 mill dollars now he is going to change the vehicles
"From now on, we're going to make those civilian vehicles flex-fuel capable, plug-in hybrid or cars fueled by clean natural gas." J.M.

i am sorry but doesnt his " experience" let him know that here in the US there is a process to do things and change or implement laws. i mean really, just because you say you want something John doesn't make it happen no matter how good...or BAD ( in many of your choices, or flip flops its getting harder to tell) the idea may be.

you think he would have learned that with all the trouble Bush is getting into now. i say John speed dial your good friend George W. ask his what he would do then do the opposite.

bill for barack June 24th, 2008 1:21 pm ET

This is really cutting edge stuff, ain't it folks ?
Seems like Jimmy Carter recycled.
Be bold. Be brave. Be four more years of Bush ??????????

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Wow, you managed to contradict yourself one line later. Or are you suggesting Carter = Bush?

VotePact

** Nader/Gonzalez 2008 **

No reason why we shouldn't move froward with every efficient idea.

We have to both increase US oil production on shore and off shore while developing new technogies and resources. Everything takes too much time EXCEPT eliminating the Enron-like energy bubble comming from commodies margin buying and price auction mania.
Manic is followed by Depresion every time.

Tell that to Al Gore, he is setting a great example with his $20,000+ a month electric bill. Oh yeah, I forgot, he is a total hypocrite.

We have to be open to all Energy Alternatives that's why they call it Alternative, EXCEPT programs have a negative energy output.

It takes over 130 barrels of oil to produce ethanol equal to only 100 barrels of oil. We loose 30 to 40% making ethanol from corn, we loose food, we loose money, we loose our country to the oil barrons and Bush tax cuts.

I have yet to hear one politician utter the magic word :CONSERVE! What is wrong with asking the American people to take fewer trips, reduce the highway speed limit as we did in the 70's, buy smaller cars...this could have all been avoided had not the auto makers decided that fuel was cheap, therefore buyers would like Hummers, trucks that don't fit into parking spaces, and other gas hogs. Now Detroit whines that no one is buying these behemoths (duh!) and they just can't make enough small cars. Oh, I forgot-we're supposed to buy, shop, and spend money to on goods from China, using foreign oil. Well, guess who's getting rich? Not us. Our home prices are plummeting, gas is getting beyond the reach of many folks, and milk costs more than $4/ gallon as well. So we can either get smart on our own, or wait 10 years for the government to come up with a plan. I vote for riding my bike everywhere I can.
And I doubt either candidate can do much about it. Until this Presidency, the President had to work with Congress to get things done. I expect that will happen again next year.

We are now living with the example of this administration's energy policy. Like the fox guarding the hen house.....energy policy made by energy companies....anyone who thinks McCain will be different need look no further than those he has advising him now, during the campaign, on energy policy.....energy boys....McCain will change nothing and most likely make it worse....for us, not him....he will profit from our misery just like bush is now.

I wonder where Sen. McCain thinks all those funds for all he is proposals will come from while USA is spending over 12 billion dollars monthly in the war base on lies in Iraq? Setting up infrastructure for off-shore drilling doesn't come cheap. Sen. McCain is like trying to speed and breaking the same time (Flip Flopping)! If one is serious on going over to more enviormental source of energy, one should encourage just that and not encourage but discourage further usage of crude oil by investing on new infrastructure. You normally invest where you wish/hope to get return on investment! This is a clear indication of Sen. McCain's and his group have problem with understanding realities of business and economics. Yet they aspire to run the world's largest economy? What a joke!

There are a million and one more things that government needs to set an example in... but it's a good start...

At least McCain is willing to go out on a limb and discuss specific issues or plans related to energy policy. Obama, on the other hand has only waxed poetic on energy issues. He has yet to provide specifics other then taxing the energy providers to their knees.

If you think the energy situation is bad now, vote Obama into office and you'll consider $4.00 a gallon gasoline as the good old days.

So typical of McCain! He is so short sighted. He recommends programs or policies that on the surface appeal to voters who are desperately looking for the near economic collapse and energy crisis caused by Bush. It's like his gas tax holiday. He speaks without thinking things all the way through. McCain who supported Bush the last eight years and has essentially promoted the continuation of the Bush policies. McCain lacks vision and the leadership claiber needed to solve the problems of eights years of GOP control. He wants to play up his military experience and his hero status as making him a shoo in for Commander-in-Chief. Unfortunately for many reasons, such as his age and lack of vision just to name a few, his so-called military experiences and hero status simply do not equate as what is needed in either the Commander-in- Chief or the President. A McCain victory equates with the status quo of Bush's eight years.

Former Hillary supporter for Obama = The Good
I'm staying home and not voting = The Bad
Former Hillary supporter for McCain = The Ugly

So, who'll be Eli Wallach and who'll be Lee van Cleef? Doesn't matter, we Clint Eastwoods'll win in the end anyway!

What a promising example to set. Mr. McCain is already hostage to the oil industry which is the mainstay of his party. He has their interests above the interests of the American people...

Before you all think McCain's gone green, you should look at who's giving him advice on energy issues:

James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defnese, former director of the CIA, and currently involved with an agency to modernize the military.

Bud McFarlane, National Security Advisor under Reagan; he was indicted and then pardoned by the Gipper for his involvement in Iran-Contra (where the CIA sold arms to Iranians).

James Woolsey, former director of the CIA, and profiteer of the Iraq war, according to the New America foundation.

What’s weird about his energy advisors is that they’re all military men, in some form or fashion, with ties to the CIA. Does anybody think that’s suspicious? Shouldn’t energy advisors come from the energy sector? Shouldn’t they all have PHDs or some sort of scientific background? I understand that securing our future energy sources translates directly to security for the nation, but this is just odd.

Good idea. Start with base police cars that have nothing to do but ride around parking lots everyday trying to see who left their car unlocked.

okay i am so tired of people saying that we are prejudice just because we do not LIKE barack Obama...c'mon its his policies..he does not have any...and is making them along the WAY....GEEZ

I was a McCain supporter, but now I'm for BOB BARR!!!

Thanks for showing me the way, Lou Dobbs!!

BARR / TRAINED MONKEY 08!!

We still got the HRC supporters that wanna vote for McLame, well go ahead we don't need you, come to think of it we don't want you flip flopper's. Take a long look at the pols they will stay in Obama's favor.

We will win and I mean win big...

Obama 2008

President Carter tried to curve the Government spending on basic things. No big time parties, no Limos, no extravagant travels. The out come? His own DEM party turned on him. No one wanted to work with him, DEM or GOP. If President Reagon had continued the Ethonol program that Carter started in 1978, We would be almost thirty years into that technology. Farmers would be growing the necessary corn, and our dependency on foriegn oil would be something of the past. This time a GOP want to try this stragety. Good Luck McCain. I'm still an Obama man.

Can we stop with the McNames already???

wow..
lol.. McCain is truly sad… On one hand he opens up the drilling in eco-sensitive areas and then on the other hand he set energy standards.

What sense does it make? Ny the time the new old comes to marked the oil consumption would have been reduced to a point where we don't need that oil.

Typical Bush/McCain tactics.. play both sides of the coin, hoping Americans are too stupid to understand what's going on.

I guess people who can vote for McCain are the people who don't really know what's going on, so they will eat this up.

vote with Love of America, Vote Obama.

Yeah John, whatever.

He has been in Washington long enoug to had started this process before now.

Poor John, he's trying so hard to stay relevant.

Dear angry/bitter/racist Clinton supporters. Please do us all a favor and vote for McCain. After 4 years of higher low/middle income taxes, gas prices, continued war, foreclosures and outsourcing, many of you will either be dead or homeless. Then, maybe we can resume having a political system that is not subverted by the likes of you.

Where was McCain on the importance of energy conservation ten or twenty years ago? Did he propose upping mileage standards for cars in the 1980's or 1990"s? 2000's? Empty talk from an empty campaign.

Our military today consumes more than 50 million gallons of fuel EACH MONTH. Food for thought.

Sen. Mac, does that include the largest fuel -burning entity on this planet, the United States Military ?

Unlike Obama, McCain is a man who puts his money where his mouth is. This is a great symobolic approach to start with. Now try telling me McCain is another Bush term. It may make a good campaign slogan, but it's not grounded in truth.

McCain 08', Hilary 12'

Make sure there is a McCain car with an easy-lift seat mechanism so he doesn't keep hitting his head.

Do we have a hybrid Stealth Bomber?

Im confused I thought the republican party was for smaller government involvement in our lives. Also, thought republicans didnt care about our environment, they want to drill in ANWAR and believe global warming is a hoax. I'm very confused. Someone help me understand this please.

In this time we are living where the curse of fossil fuel dependence is strangling our economy why can't you haters at least see this as a positive.

I get the limo, private jet and other ways we can point to the hipocracy of a politician. But really, be honest, this idea in it's simple form is a step (one of many needed) in the right direction.

Haters, you need to find something else to spit your venom on.

For all you "Obama Sheep" How come when someone besides Hussein comes up with an idea you blast it. All Hussein ever says is he has a comprehensive energy plan and leaves it at that.

You empty suit has no ideas just words......

Hussein Speech "My little sheep I am going to put forth a comprehensive energy plan from now on so our grand children will be oil free" And the little sheep yell he is awesome, look at that change, we love you, what ever you say, your the best.

You all need to get a grip

If McCain really cares about the environment, claiming he is an "environmentalist", he should step aside and let Obama lead the way, since we know the strongest party on the environment is clearly the Dems. Do the right thing McCain, vote for Obama like everyone else.

The ageism expressed on this site and directed at John McCain is appalling and speaks volumes about Obama's sophomoric supporters. Keep it up guys. You just may lose it for Obama come November!

Woohoo lets talk about the environment then go home. Wait..theres 8 which one???

The dems have set a great example with light bulbs that are hazardous waste (mercury), driving big gas hogs for their work vehicles (they should be chauffered in Yaris vehicles), ethenol requirements raised so food prices go up atleast $47 per person and probably more. Cannot drill, build more refineries, must get higher cafe standards but have to load the vehicle with all this extra safety and emmissions equipment so it does not have the power to pull my grandson's little red wagon and is a rolling coffin! Wake up America before you destroy our economy for our children and grandchildren.

Good for John. He has the experience and necessary intelligence to be our president. Now here is the other candidate:

Just how much Senate experience does Barack Obama have in terms of actual work days? Not much. From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.

After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan. 143 days - I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that.

In contrast, John McCain's 26 years in Congress, 22 years of military service including 1,966 days in captivity as a POW in Hanoi now seem more impressive than ever. At 71, John McCain may just be hitting his stride.

John McCnn said he didn't really love America,and cnn hasn't even reported on it. Your becoming just like fixed news.

FAKE Democrat Debra Bartoshevich is a sellout, by the way. She should think long and hard on Mr. McCain's stances on WOMENS RIGHTS...SELLOUT!!!

Set the example, purchase high cost vehicles that the common man can not afford to purchase, pardon me, lease experimental vehicles that are not for sale, but lease only, that the common man can not afford to lease, and pay for the energy saving vehicles by adding them to the natioanl debt. Why, not. Sounds like a sound plan.

Thats mccain for you,say anything to win, with is phoney grin.
(as he looks down on us) and speak to us as if we are a bunch of
dummies.

It's amazing how fast he adopted a "liberal" position on energy when he thinks it will help him get elected. This guy blows in the wind!

Yet another stupid idea from shell-shocked McCain. Why not improve our public transportation system? More buses and rails. Why not encouraging car-pooling more? McCain's idea is as insane as his battery proposal. It's time to stop thinking like McCain, America. Vote for Obama. Real solutions to real problems.

Nice try McCain. I rather see the mileage of cars, trucks, and SUVs go up.

Having flex-fuel fleets of government cars is a small step in the right direction. However, there are over 70 million cars (that are running consistently) in the U.S. McCain's proposal would amount to less than 0.1% of all U.S. cars being flex-fuel capable.

Dobson, McCain, Bush, Cheney all are the SAME. Morons, Constitution = separation of Church and State.

I don't believe this, the guy says something sensible and positive at a time of national energy crisis and all he gets is a load of "No we can't".

Drill more, spend more, give more money to the wealthy by holding a "contest", people talking about more terror attacks, cheep shots on foreign soil, hanging out in the Bushs...geez...

The ENERGY crisis is being purposefully confused with the GAS PRICE crisis. The two are only related in that the failure of the Bush administration to address the ENERGY crisis created the GAS PRICE crisis.

Solving the immediate problem of high gas prices is simple: SLOW DOWN!!!

I pumped up my tires, and slowed to 55 mph. I now go 50% farther on a tank of gas.

WE NEED THE 55 MPH SPEED LIMIT BACK!

THIS IS A NO-BRAINER!!!

Thank you John McCain for being a man. All you Obama supporters who find fault with this will regret it if Obama becomes prestdent. Thats if we have a country left after a year of him.

This policy should have been implemented as soon as fuel-efficient cars were on the market

An adviser to Sen. John McCain apologized Monday for saying a terrorist attack on the United States would be "a big advantage" for the Republican presidential candidate. WE NEED TO JOIN AND STOP MCCAIN BEFORE WE HAVE ANOTHER 911!

McCain is suddenly posturing as if he's the new environment czar. So why did he receive a zero rating from the League of Conservation Voters for 2007?

Hey Nicole and Chad your starting to sound like Michelle Obama...haha Just Kidding.

Obama 08

what does PUMA mean? obviously by the idiots posting it i can tell it's some dumb operation chaos type thing.

Where is Baracks plan? All I here is rhetoric no solution at least McCain is offering solutions. Higher taxes to everyone including businesses that have nothing to do with energy. Left lunatics keep saying it will take ten years to come on line but in ten years and won't change price we will still need oil so why not have more of it produced by us for us. That is the dumbest argument we can have renewable investment and domestic oil investment at the same time. Anyone who still backs or is backed by corn based ethanol is an idiot look what it does to corn prices and food prices and it is 4 times less efficient than sugar cane based ethonal. Quit putting all your eggs in the wrong baskets and solve the problems with multiple solutions.

Yes makes sense McSame but you are really a Bush/Cheney loyalist at heart trying to appear as a progressive with this and the prize for a new battery.

There is no consistancy with his energy and environmental policy. He says this, then flip-flops on drilling oil along the coasts. First was against removing the coastal ban...now he is for ocean drilling. So obviously he caved into the same Big Oil lobbyists that dominated the White House the last 8 years.

why is john mccain copying off obama all of a sudden is it because he knows obamas policies are right and his own are a disater too late mcsame stop copying off obama we all know what your about

McSame pandering?

nooooo, it couldn't be

don't be fooled by this guy, he left his centrism in South Carolina back in 2000.

He's as eveil as every other Republican (except Chuck Hagel)

LB, EXCELLENT point! my car's 14 years old and runs GREAT!!!!!!

I'm so proud of my America I can't stand it. We will not only take this country back, but we will send the buzzards flying in all directions. The first buzzard will flying back to Crawford, Texas.

....what about your wife's company jet that you use?

Proud Hybrid Owner here. I'm not waiting for a wasteful govenment to let me keep my money.

Good Job, President McCain!

You prove once again to be in touch with the issues that America faces.

Real Solutions for Real Problems.

Change we can afford!

McCain '08!!

If you keep up the eco-friendly pledges, Sen McCain, I might just have to reevaluate my support for Sen. Obama.

The ignorance of Americans–who can't even comprehend the scope and size of the U.S. government–including federal agencies and the military departments. 60,000 vehicles purchased or leased is a drop in the bucket–and doesn't even include thinks like tanks and hummers.

Aside from the utter stupidity of some of these posts. What practical details has Mr. B. Hussein Obama provided on how he will begin to reduce greenhouse gases–beginning with something the President can actually make an executive order for?

I know=–he'll issue an executive order that all American's have hope.!! Where are the details????????????Mr. Obama?????

Does McCain remember what his policies are this week? Probably not which is why next week, get a whole new set of policies to 'be for'. McFlip at his best. Maybe he can be a host on a game show and get our money for health care as well. Dynamic and creative proposals McFlip.

The wolves (lobbyist) are getting scared. They know that their days on Capitol Hill are numbered. They realize that they will NEVER write another bill for Congress that caters to their own selfish needs.

Barack did the right thing. He left Congress before he could get tainted by the wolves. He will go back to DC the victor and sweep the halls of impropriety with the will of the people.

Obama 08

That's nice. Obama '08.

First – old doesn't mean stupid! Second, it means EXPERIENCE and third, McCain is savvy to the ways of Washington. Savvy does not mean he agrees with everything they do--it means he knows HOW TO GET THINGS DONE. Obama – "that fresh new face" does NOT have experience, does not know how to get things done. His ideas are hazy and rhetorical. Doesn't get anything done just sounds good.

Ha! Too little too late McCain. You've had 20 years to propose something and you did nothing. We want real "Change"!!
Lets Go Dems!!!

Another insignificant proposal from McCain that will do nothing but makes for a good sound bite. I am starting to feel sorry for McCain. Little money, No vision for American. Obama dominates the news every day with seemingly little effort, whereas McCain is just simply boring, his words are tired, and he lacks conviction.

I bet if McCain had Al Gore to take care of making the changes to use less energy it would happen………no….wait, that is right Al Gore is just a bunch of talk!!! He now uses more energy!!

“In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a Nashville-based free market think tank and watchdog organization, obtained information about Gore’s home energy use through a public records request to the Nashville Electric Service.”

lol.. McCain is truly sad… On one hand he opens up the drilling in eco-sensitive areas and then on the other hand he set energy standards.

What sense does it make? Ny the time the new old comes to marked the oil consumption would have been reduced to a point where we don't need that oil.

Typical Bush/McCain tactics.. play both sides of the coin, hoping Americans are too stupid to understand what's going on.

I guess people who can vote for McCain are the people who don't really know what's going on, so they will eat this up.

vote with Love of America, Vote Obama.

How about going back to the old "T-model Ford" John McCain because that's about all he would know about energy conservation. Give me a break. McCain talking about starting at the top with the federal government creating fuel friendly vehicles. Since when has the federal government did anything but hire contractors that "RIPPED OFF" tax payers. McCain sounds more like Cheney/Halliburten than anything else. NO MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING MCCAIN.

Ya know, it just lacks a melodious sound to hear McCain contradict his voting record on anything environmental.

He should be voting to increase fuel mileage to 60 mpg beginninig 2010. I'm convinced the technnology already exists for at least that much. Maybe even more like 80 mpg. And that automatically lowers the carbon emissions. Cheaper prices for gas are a useless incentive to use less of it, better fuel mileage is.

just as soon as big oil, and speculators suck the little people dry, then he will back energy alternatives. he has too many enron people in his camp to want a change.

All of a sudden, McFuel is energy orientated......now that gas is $5.00 a gallon. You are running out of gas......McCain.

With McCain you're just going to get the "same old, same old" just like him. I can hardly wait for the debates !!!!!! Obama 2008

Thanks John, after listening to your energy policy I have a feeling Barack's win in November is going to be a landslide. The rumblings of the people taking their country back will be resounding and finite. We've had enough. We've had enough.

So keep espousing your proposals for the Federal Govt., while the rest of us lick our chops on your inevitable defeat in November.

When Barack wins in November, I will be happy for America, but mostly I'll be happy for the young men, and women who went to war on false pretenses. I'll be happy that they will no longer have a government that sends them in harms way for personal reasons.

It will be a Happy Day.

OBAMA 08 AND BEYOND.

Nicole, you are exactly right. I purchased a Moped and take it to work and when I do little trips around town. It will pay for itself in 18 weeks, which is a stretch in Wisconsin for summers, but within a 2 years I will be well into savings. People want things given to them and are very unwilling to do things themselves. This isnt a dem or repub issue, its a spoiled American issue.

Hey CNN, why don't you expose McCain by siting Executive Order 13423, Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management. McCain's great and enlightened suggestion is already an exectutive order.

Why does the federal government need 60,000 NEW cars every year? McCain says spend money on more cars. Why not just save money and not buy any more cars for 2 years. $25,000 a car, times 60,000 cars, right there is a 1.5 million dollar savings if they don't buy NEW cars. Maybe the federal government employees should take the bus, ride their bikes, commute by train back east. Why do the Republicans say we the little people need to cut back on gas use, but then McCain turns around and says they will be buying 60,000 NEW cars on the road to use up more gas. McCain is an idiot!

You go, McCain! With you all the way!

Formerly for Hillary.....now for McCain!

A good start would be to turn out the lights when no one is home...

You know the "old" bit, the lights are on but no one's home !!!

OBAMA 08 & 12 ...

I will take that long to undo the ineptness of the past Republican years... I can't believe they have piled so much debt on my grandchildren, simply, unconsionable. Please send glue, we will need that to repair our standing in the world to say nothing of the founding documents.

Hey McSame, why don't you get rid of Phil Gramm, your economic adviser, the one that helped make law, the Enron loophole, which the got the oil companies billions and billions of dollars, and is the main reason we are paying $4 + a gallon today?

McCain keeps beating Obama to the punch on energy.

Let's see , drill domestically, alternative fuels, and nuclear.

I guess Obama has no plan.

The Corporate States of America!!!

All you poor people find a bunker....cause its about to hit the fan with this guy.

Im sorry why does the federal government need to buy $60,000 cars a year? Who drives them all?

I guess it's better late than never. McSame is saying all of the word that he thinks people want to hear. But since he is league with big OIL nothing will be done to get our country free of foreign oil.

He's a wealthy man because of his wealthy wife. He can wait forever for the energy crisis to be over, the housing crisis, and the war (100 years). This man scares me because there is no sense of urgency for anything. He's old. He's tired. He's lived his life. The rest of us will have to placate his ego for FOUR long years while he sits back in a rocking chair and feeds us these lines about "someday". We don't have the luxury of waiting for John McCain to do the right thing. He's a nice old man who doesn't have a clue what the rest of us are going through.

We have to move now, and the best person for the job is the person who is thinking in terms of TODAY. That person is Barack Obama.

Yet McWar is all for drilling! A program that does nothing to make gas prices go down. Think about it in 10 years, when the oil finally hits the market, why would oil companies chose to loose money by adding to the supply???

McCain go live in Florida and wear your white loafers with black socks and drive your golf cart. Yes you are a maverick if this was the 1950's but it's the 21st century and you don't even know how to turn on a computer.

So long Gramps!!!

Hillary but never obama.
Mc Cain/Palin 2008.

good thinking senator. now get the government to stop wasting money by selling contracts to the highest bidder, make recycling mandatory at all federal buildings, put federal prisoners to work on chain gangs fixing roads, and force congress to give up their pork. im with you all the way.

McCain is not speaking English. He is speaking a dialect of 'wink-and-nudge-conservo-speak.'

What he is saying is "It's ok for you to drive your gas-hogs if you can afford it." His solution is a non-solution, as usual. Let us imagine ways we could actually reduce petroleum usage:

1. Lower speed limits (all you Westerners can stop talking about your "special" need to speed. I live in the southwest and I can drive slower. You can too.)

2. Put a BIG gas-hog tax on any family vehicle that cannot get, say, 25 mpg (or more). Let's say 50%. Or, outlaw them altogether.

3. Require a mechanism to be installed in every car that would limit the vehicle's maximum speed to 50 mph. Back it up with a HEFTY fine, say, confiscation of the vehicle.

Now if McCain had any political courage, he could propose those two reforms which cost nothing and could be implemented right away. Of course, all of you would vote against him.

McCain wants government to set energy example

Well lets see; McExxon how many oil lobbyist funding your campaign?

Are you going to set an example?

Obama 08/12

Hey CNN, why don't you expose McCain by siting Executive Order 13423, Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management. McCain's great and enlightened suggestion is already an exectutive order. Shows how much McCain knows about how to solve the energy crisis, copycat everyone else's policies and ideas.

What McMoney didn't mention is the cost to "remodel" all those offices.

Dear "Don't Do It",

The Clintons threw "some Americans" under the bus first. The very same Americans who supported him for his presidency twice, and stood by him during the Monica Lewinsky fiasco.

His long time "friends and colleagues" did not expect to be betrayed because they had the audacity to question Hillary's dirty politics tactics.

We now know that the Clintons couldn't care less about Civil Rights, or Human Rights–it was just their ticket to the White House. If you'd take your head out of the sand, you would realize that Bill and Hill had a pact, to get both of them into the White House by hoodwinking their so called "friends and colleagues". Thank God part of their plan did not work, and to my dying day I will make sure that Hillary never lives in the White House again. They are awful people who don't deserve it.

well it's about time. What took you so long to get on board?

The Government Could Save A Lot Of Energy If They Installed A Wind Turbine In Front Of Your Mouth!

OK – why not start by down-sizing from a 747 to a smaller plane. That will save a lot .

And close off some of the rooms in the WH. Not all are needed and at a time when folks can hardly afford to eat, cutting down on heat and a/c and travel expenses for the POTUS will NOT be a hardship.

McCain/Huckabee 08

Well good for government officials, but what about the rest of us that can't afford to buy 60,000 cars every year?

Can we borrow one of yours?

Im Still Waiting For An Example Of Your Experience Or Leadership!

$300,000,000 of Pork is an example?

Oil-Man to the teeth. He doesn't care about green energy at all.

He can't be talking about Govt taking the lead on energy when he's advocating for import of sugar cane for alternative fuel renewal. By importing this commodity we are rewarding another country (Brazil). Why can't we make that money go into the hands of the farmers here than the farmers abroad. People of the world will like to see a label MADE IN U.S.A on a different commodity than just ammunitions.

Oh now you want the Gov. to set an example....why didn't you push for that all the eight years you supported the C-grade student Bush. I thought you weren't interested in big gov. and that the people must govern themselves and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps....but you would take our taxpayer dollars to go blow it up in the middle east.....shame on you John McBush!!

The problem with our country is they want what they want when they want it. Europeans have adjusted, so can we. AND – help the enviornment! More public transportation and smaller vehicles. The offshore oil will go the national market and will probably just make oil companies richer in the long run.

My husband & I are starting to ride our bikes to work once a week and to run errands close to home. That will save us almost $90 for 3 – 4 months (while the weather is nice), more than the gas tax holiday would've done.

People CAN adapt, they CHOSE not to!

Sounds like a good start...saving the tax payers money.

This is really cutting edge stuff, ain't it folks ?
Seems like Jimmy Carter recycled.
Be bold. Be brave. Be four more years of Bush ??????????

Isn't that already a government policy to be energy effecient? McCain is once again trying to take credit for a policy already in place. Quit taking credit for ideas you didn't come with.

My 26 rims on my Denali look good no matter what yo gas say!

tiffy

I guess someone finally told McSame that the solution is to get off of oil, not drill more wells that won't the market for 10 years. McCain is really backward looking. Old solutions that don't work and only help the oil companies, but that's his view of most issues, help the corporations and maybe, just maybe the corporations will help the people, yeah right. As far as the batteries, it just shows he doesn't read too much. GM now has the battery technology, announced about 2 months ago. The Chevy Volt will be on the market in 2010, maybe sooner.

McCain, get with the times or just stay home.

For some reason, this reminds me of when Reagan got elected, and removed the solar panels from the White House roof. I would love to see the Republicans start taking a lead in responsible energy use, or responsible govornment spending for that matter, but their track record has long suggested otherwise.

Please God Please!!!
God oh mighty I do not want to look at this face for 4years.

Old man flip fopping again what happen to your idea off shore drilling. May be your reason for that is to make the stupid republicans happy ha old man. How can you favour off shore drilling and be enviromentalist at the same time hard to believe, but then the stupid repulican voters would not understand the difference anyways good move old man.

Interesting Idea.... however, we'll have to pay for those cars, and they are higher, and cost more.. than standard gas cars...

Reality is... unless there is a comprehensive energy plan, that reduces our Nation's dependence on oil... as well as money to invest in alternate fuels, and technologies... nothing will work.

I think it's a great idea... but McCain will have to do much more than that... and change his attitude towards offshore drilling...

Drilling oil in this country will NOT make a difference in the coming years.. . and the oil industry needs to start working on alternatives... if they do so, they will continue to be profitable...

My suggestion... cut all subsidies to the oil industry that have nothing to do with alternative energy research... and give them tax breaks on the alternative fuels... not the oil... that might change their stance...

The media may be in love with McBush, but America is not. There is no straight talk in the man who only walks in flip flops-even when it comes to his wives. Maybe they are like his country, he only loves them when he is deprived of their company.

I agree,...now about that drilling off the coastline....................

WHAT A HOT MESS.

That was the second worse speech I've heard him give...The first being the night Sen Obama got the notitation. This is crazy who write this stuff and who told him he could call me his friend...Mr. McCain (first time I've referred to him as Mr.) you are not my friend. I'm a Marine who has friends enaged in a war we all know is wrong but you. I will never forgive you and the others who voted on this war.

our great goal is to move American transportation toward lower carbon emissions, then it should start with the federal fleet.".............
GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!

And just where are our local governments supposed to get the extra money to do this. They are already taxing us to death. Maybe McCain's wife is going to foot the bill?

lol.. McCain is truly sad... On one hand he opens up the drilling in eco-sensitive areas and then on the other hand he set energy standards.

What sense does it make? Ny the time the new old comes to marked the oil consumption would have been reduced to a point where we don't need that oil.

Typical Bush/McCain tactics.. play both sides of the coin, hoping Americans are too stupid to understand what's going on.

I guess people who can vote for McCain are the people who don't really know what's going on, so they will eat this up.

vote with Love of America, Vote Obama.

Well that's great news: I'm going to pay for their flex-fuel capable, plug-in hybrid and natural gas propelled cars.

So does that mean they will pay for one of those for me?

What's in it for me-a voter who is fuming mad when I fill up my car to go to work?

McCain just keeps missing the concept that the American voter needs more than a crumb from the table.

If people would stop the "Prom King" mindset when voting and actually looked at the issues, Obama wouldn't stand a chance.

I'm an independent voter. When I look at the issues and such a lack of wisdom on Obama's behalf concerning energy, healthcare, and the economy I just have to hand my vote over to the Republicans this time! I wish the Dems would have been a little more thoughtful in their decision for a canidate. But then again, what do most Americans care about the issues for, "We just want to see history!" Hmm....

McCain '08

Good thinking McCain.
I'm a Dem, but recognize a good common sense plan.

I like it.

Let's not wait until next year though. Put the bill in.

VotePact

** Nader/Gonzalez 2008 **

mccain is CLUELESS!

Its sad to see him waste his time running for President.

No. How about the government give out energy efficient vehicles to the citizens of this country who will actually use them everyday for commuting to work, transporting their kids to their activities and driving to their vacations?

That's this week, He's still flip-fopping in the wilderness.
Why hasn't the oil company's drilled and started pumping oil from all the oil leases they already have? If the oil is there why would they not pump it, something smell with that. If there was money to be made the oil company would be pumping every drop out of there current leases, what's the hold up. John McCain has been in the Senate a long time and now he comes up with this ...WOW... a little slow on the uptake. The need for more and more oil has increased on his watch, why should we think he's serious now. Oh he wants to be president.

How about McCain actually set one and not drill if he actually cares about the environment which he doesn't.

you have to be elected ,first.and you wont be.

"...vehicles flex-fuel capable, plug-in hybrid or cars fueled by clean natural gas." John, do you yourself have and drive such a vehicle? If so, bravo!
If not, get with the game plan–your own game plan.

Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He will do anything to try and get elected.

"Yes My Friend we will get the energy thingy back on track,"
Someone wake McSame up, there is already battery technology out there to do it....BUT

His buddy's in the Bush/Cheney/McCain circle don't and won't let it happen. Good try McWar..

Go ahead McSame ...You're making a fool of yourself everytime you open you mouth...

How did Bush say it on youtube?..."Fool me once....duh duh...you can't be fooled all the time."

Well then you could fuel your limo on your own gas,your so full of it.

Another good idea: Convention Delegate's Reversal Stuns Party: Wisconsin Democrat Debra Bartoshevich, previously pledged to Sen. Clinton, now publicly supports Sen. McCain. As you might imagine, she has lost her seat at the convention. But found her voice.

Citizens for McCain '08
(Coalition of Independents & Democrats for McCain)

Someone his age talking about energy? That's like Bob Dole saying "The men of this country need to set the precedent on erections".

Sorry. Thanks to Bush, the Republicans will be viewed as backward thinking, "give me my oil now" fools. And all the energy in the world exerted on McCain's part won't push us toward new energies that will help us. Only back to big oil and Iraq.

Nice try.

Get with it will ya? Obama said that late last year you moron and Obama went alot further than you are willing too. A little too late john mcwar, btw we know you could care less about the enviornment but your advisors are telling you to pandar to the independents so you'll say anything. But curious how you now care for the enviornment but you announced two days ago you want off shore drilling. John, you've got to keep your lies straight honey.

I guess maybe they should have left Jimmy Carters solar panels up then huh.

Nice!!! Wow...even though I am an Obama supporter, I must say, bravo Mr. Mccain! I'm getting more respect for him as he sticks to the issues. I hope they can work in a bipartisan fashion when this election is over...actually i hope they could start now...

Just curious, what kind of cars do the two campaigns use to drive them around?

What kind of planes?

Maybe they should start with their own campaigns first, then start complaining about other areas.