I'm a Democrat whose planning on voting for Obama (who voted for Clinton in the primary), a conservative who abhors squandering our national oil supply, and hates giving money to my energy money to Republicans, Texans, and Arabs, but I like McCain's innovation incentive for a better automobile battery. The man is so tied to Bush and Bush's backers that he might as well be swimming with a ball and chain but he's an experienced, intelligent human who deserves credit when it's due. He won't get my vote but he does get this isolated commendation. There are some very good environmentalists within the Republican ranks (just not many in government).

wont it be great when oil washes up on the beaches of california,after the next 'big one',and everyone can collect their own fule for free.the black 'gold rush' of 2009.we'll have to rename the team from san francisco,tho.how 'bout the um…OILERS!ya the forty-niners can be the oilers.

he means 'no' we cant be stupid about your tired old ways.it's time for you cronies from the civil war era to step aside and let someone with some common sense and loyalty to the country,take over and show REAL leadership skills. mccain should write on the blackboard WAR IS NOT GOOD 1,000 times while lieberman counts for him. obama '08

Democrats energy plan is simple
You ride a bicycle
You ride the bus
If food is expensive, its not our fault blame, blame, blame
Obama tell us the truth, where are your records from Illinoi ??
PUMA Hillary or Mc Cain

Donna

If that oil gets as far as the west coast, it will likely be shipped to China.

That's a fact that's out there too.

So why wasn't something done on the energy front when the Republicans were in charge for so many years of the Bush fiasco? Could this whole drilling for oil offshore just be another typical manipulate the ignorant ploys during election time? Kind of like the gay marriage epidemic threatening to doom America, only brought out as an issue at elections so Republicans can scare up a few more votes from the pathetic.

26 years = CHANGE I can trust. Obama = CHANGE I can do without.
Obama why does Soros fund MOVE.ON and invest in Halliburton ?
Smells bad.

hahahaha….nice comeback . And he thinks he is too old. He thinks like a 26 y.o. Obama is running out of gas already..hihihi.

Honeybee - your mommy will be home any minute. Better get off of her computer sweetie.

Come back and play when you are a little older.

Obama, I do not know why you should criticise John McCain. You do not ahve any plan of your own. You have no experience. Actually you do not even desrve to be a senator. Get Lost.

…allow me to give examples:

A long time ago McCain called for "ending dependence on foreign oil through investment in alternative energy" because it was a "national security risk." to remain dependent. His solution was with, "various initiatives" So he is now parroting McCain and taking credit for his ideas?!

I also like how CNN tries to use this as a contrast by making it sound like McCain's only ideas are: "offshore drilling, a summer gas tax holiday, and more efficient car batteries." Wow…what a scam!!!

I'm betting CNN doesn't post this comment, like a majority of the others I've made. Only pro-Obama items are allowed here.

Exaclty !

It;s time McCaine to stop pandering and coming up with ideas that we was against back in the stone ages!

What in the world?!?! When did Obama suddenly adopt McCain's energy policy? So he rips McCain off and then points the finger at him as if he is at fault for the high prices? This man is a real fraud, hopefully the people will see through his empty rhetoric soon.

McCain 08

American oil will go to the INTERNATIONAL oil companies who will sell it at the price set by the speculators. The demand for oil in India and China will outpace what can be produced, we're in a global GLOBAL economy, remember. In America, the oil will bottleneck at the refineries which the oil companies have already said that they are NOT going to build more because they don't want to invest the money. And, everytime, the Israeli government, our government or OPEC says ANYTHING about Iran the speculators increase the price of oil. Let's not even talk about the devaluation of the dollar.

Ok, so who in here thinks we have oil off shore, in ANWAR, and the oil shales for suppy us with the 70% we are importing now??? Well, guess what. WE DON'T HAVE IT. If the oil companies here wanted us to be oil independant, then why are they selling it to Japan for a higher price? MONEY, thats why. Guianni confirmed that on FOX the other day. Wake up people. The cheap oil is gone. We need OFF oil. Our economy, our technology, our way of life is too far advanced for the old and broken down system of powering it.

mcfilp=mccain. oh yes, mcold= mccain, and oh yes mcloser=mccain

If the Democrats had not stopped American oil exploration about ten years ago, we would have that oil NOW. Now Obama is saying drilling wouldn't give us any new oil for an other five years. The idea is that you have to start drilling to get that oil. This is the man of change? Sounds like the same thing we heard before!

Go get em' Bam!

It's about time Obama started calling McSame for his lies about energy 'policy'. McCain's energy 'policy' consits of lies, gimmicks, psychological benefits and more rewards for Bush's oil buddies. Obama wants to make a real significant investment in alternative energies w/o drinking the right-wing koolaid about more drilling.

Vote Bob Barr!

Donna in ID July 11th, 2008 6:53 pm ET

"About 20 yrs ago the Indians in MT. got a pipe line for oil and natural gas stopped from being built and going across their reservation."

You think, we haven't taken over enough of native Indians land.!!!

The AOl Straw Poll – REAL people voting REALTIME: July 7 – 14, 119,530 total votes cast: McCain 66%, Obama 34%.

ANNOY THE LIBERALS
Work — Succeed — Be Happy!

Hey , NotFallingInLine. do you have anything else to say? I'm sure you don't have a clue about Obama's platform, you're either a Hillary supporter who hasn't a a clue about her platform either or just sleazy republican postering as a disappointed Obama supporter, and if you are a real Obama supporter then yout trust his judgment. With supporters like you who needs republicans!

Tap 20-30% of the federal naval petroleum reserve. The international price of oil will drop by 50 to 75 dollars almost instantly. Oh, but make sure to do it unannounced, so that the speculators who have been building their fortunes off the breaking backs of average Americans don't have time to start shorting oil and go broke.

Serves them right, I say.

Wow Griff, couldn't you mask your racism a little better than that?

McPain has no vision, he is soo Dumb
OBAMA (2008 -16)

Oh man. McCain is flat out doomed. There is absolutely nothing that he or anyone else can do about it.

The economy is struggling. The gas price is costing a lot of jobs. There are many options for cars. Cars that run on water invented by Stanley Meyer, hybrid vehicles, and France who will be making cars that run off of air. and will be selling them next year. Can you believe it compressed air that is free. Check them all out on you tube.

So what is the problem for United States to implement one of these vehicles? Greed my friends. Greed.

Obama is on the right track. Get rid of lobbyist and special interest. And let us take our country back. I believe he will get this ball rolling.
Fresh ideas, new outlook on how to run this country. It is we the people.

Go Obama take this country back.

There you go, he was there for 26 of those 30 years that he (john McCain) states as 30 years of inactivity by Washington. LOL, another John McCain blunder, he needs to put a zipper on his lips and stop talking.

McCain hit that right on the head. GOOD FOR YOU. Keep it up. Lets bring out what is wrong with Obama. Now you get a devorice with this marriage with free trade. And we don't need to push the off shore drilling right now. Start with what we have on land that is so easy and faster to recover and keep working on the off shore drilling for down the road.

McStupid = OBAMA. Oh yes, McLiar = OBAMA.

You will never post this but I have to send it.
The inactivity in DC is because to many were and are in the pockets of the environmentalists and most Dems. But then there is something else. so many times when something was trying to get done be it oil drilling or logging or mining the law suits would start and then the Fed Judges made decisions and usually it was against any industry and for the environmentalists. So things came to halt and out sourcing was done.. It really upsets me that some Fed Judge in San Francisco is making policy for what happens in WA, ID, MT, WY, etc.
About 20 yrs ago the Indians in MT. got a pipe line for oil and natural gas stopped from being built and going across their reservation. The pipeline was supposed to bring product to the western states and save trucking expenses. There is enough blame to go around and it is past time that we start rectifying it to make our country solvent and secure our National Security.

True, Rock Obama is right. We must get off Oil and onto other energy sources or we are owned by foriegn countries that do not like us. Even the King of Big Oil, T. Boone Pickens is on a nationwide campaign to free America from oil dependancy.

John McCain has spent 26 years in the Senate and now several years running for President without offering a single idea or reason as to why anyone should vote for him - it's amazing to me that Obama isn't leading in the polls by 100% - why in the name of God would anyone even consider 4 more years of failed policies of McBush?

Go Obama!

Yes. Mr McCain supported the Iraq war. McCain is not change. McCain is McBush.

Good Point! If McCain was just an "influential" person in the White House, why is it he never stressed the issue? This shows how Barack is really about change. He hasn't been in the Washington long and it appears that is a good thing. McCain stood by and let people walk right over him and tell him what direction he should go, which is why is not ready to be CIC.

Simple, John McCain keeps taking the same old self inflicted punches round after round after round. John McCain probably never watched a boxing match, if he had, he'd know a boxer never knocks himself out. McCain's has had 30 years in the Senate and ran for president in 2000, you'd think his "experience" would have taught him.

Obama is so NOT what he promised us Democrats during the nomination contest that he would be.

If the Democrats can't trust him, can you?

Knoxville NFIL

When it comes to being Vetted? Obama. It's you who needs to be
DNA'd with this Eleged Mother of yours, of the East Indies… Your Dad dumped you, and this woman adopted you.. You know that… That's why you were so Parnoid, you went to see your Lawyer at the Vetting Office the otherr day…

Obama is against drilling in the US even though drilling here would lead to more oil royalties for the US government and less money for the backwards countries that we buy are oil from. This is money that could be used to pay for alternative energy research or on transportation improvements.

Unfortunatley it would seem that he would rather the poor here and abroad suffer as the price of food and fuel continues to climb thanks to the increase of ethanol production from a food product

Oh this is getting good.

Obama started going after McCain on Friday by quoting the Arizona senator saying the country’s dependence on foreign oil stems from 30 years of inaction in Washington.

“I could not agree more, John McCain is exactly right,” Obama said to more than a thousand supporters in a school gymnasium. “The only problem is that out of those 30 years, Senator McCain was one of those politicians in Washington for 26.”

The Situation Room has steadily deteriorated throughout the course of this election. In the second hour today, it showed an excerpt of Obama on energy, but then the so-called "expert" only dissected John McCain's views. That is unconscionable bias for media.

Borac Obama… The Guy that, Bends in a Breeze. Week is not the Word….. Geek is a better one…. When the going get's tough! The tough get going. Johnie Mc, can cut the slack….

It's pretty obvious Obama has better script writers than McCain does. Did these guys use to write sit-coms?

Obama, I agree with you 100%!! Mcsame is going about pretending that he is not part of washington, when he has been there for the past 26yrs. When is he going to admit his mistakes as one of the entrenched washington insiders? It amuses me whenever I hear him say that he too is a candidate of change.

Any vote for Mcsame is a vote for the entrenchment of the status quo. Americans are yearning for change and Obama is the breath of fresh air that we urgently need. May God bless America.

McCain: agent of change in DC.

He seems to change his mind every day.

Why does McCain keep lying about Obama's position on nuclear power?

MCBUSH HAS A GREAT ENERGY PLAN.

THEY USED WHITE OUT ON THE CHANEY

PLAN & PUT MCBUSH'S NAME ON IT.

America can easily ween of oil!!! The car companies have the technology to make low- emissions cars but haven't had a reason to introduce them before now. Honda has a car that runs off water (Hydrogen-cell), but there are limited places to fill up. The plug-in electric hybrids are coming out in 2010 and they can go almost 100mile/gal. Obama is right when he says that America needs to find long term solutions. McCain and Bush owe the oil companies billions and that's why they are all for offshore drilling. I know for a fact that the oil drilled in the offshores will only go to the highest bidder…and that won't be America! Once again, McCain is insulting my intelligence.

"We need that oil"? Obama, you just said it won't change the price.
What is your message??? The Egg, or The Chicken????

MCSAME HAS THE SAME PLAN CHANEY DEVISED FOR BUSH.

MCSAME WOULD NEED

A SOUND MIND & SOUND INTEGRITY

TO COME UP WITH A SOUND ENERGY PLAN.

HIS PLAN EXACTLY CHANEY'S PLAN.

PILLAGE OUR ECONOMY, THEN OUR SHORES.

MCCAIN IS NOT PERFECT BUT NIETHER ARE YOU. YOUR ALOT OF TALK AND NO SUBSTANCE. WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS!!!!

If the American people would do their homework, they might find out that drilling on the continental shelve could bring us oil in 1-5 years. Wouldn't it be great if American were self sufficient and could count on themselves for oil, instead of giving middle-est 700 billion dollars a year? How many on the Hill in DC have stock in the oil companies? Why is it they can't do any thing right?

CNN, I really started reading this article, thinking it was all about Obama. But you would have none of that, You just had to end it with a line from mccain.

What is up with that?