A few discrepancies with Amelie’s post…
- I don’t support drilling in ANWR. While the amount of land that would actually be used for drilling is the equivilant to land the size of a stamp in a football field, I hesitate to disturb Alaska’s untouched land at this point.
- McCain does support Nuclear Energy…as does Obama. However both candidates believe we need to invest in and implement wind, tide, solar, and natural gas. While McCain has been more forthcoming with his Nuclear Plan, Obama also acknowledges it’s necessity.
Obama’s Energy Plan States: “It is unlikely that we can meet our aggressive climate goals if we eliminate nuclear energy.”
Side note: An advantage to building nuclear plants is the number of jobs that will be created as a result.
- We currently import our oil, which in result costs over 300 Billion, some of which ends up in the hands of terrorists. Regardless of who wins this election, the United States is not ready to stop utilizing oil, which means that we need an oil source NOW. Liberals like to use the argument that drilling now will not affect gas prices at this point, but as seen in previous situations, when future traders believe that the suppliers of oil will increase and the cost per barrel will go down, it will curb speculation of the market, therefore providing some relief from the constant up and down of gas prices. (www.ontheissues.org)
- I agree, drilling is not a solution, however I think that taking every possible action to solve the energy crisis will help us in the long run. We should be developing alternative energy sources, and at the same time establishing off shore drilling to ease the current price of gasoline or at the very least stablize it.
- McCain is against drilling in ANWR, and his voting record proves that.
- While off shore drilling still has it’s dangers, the developement of new technologies have dramatically reduced the number of oil spills.
- While I’m not necessarily thrilled with the idea of offshore drilling, (nor am I thrilled with Palin’s support of aerial killings of wolves) I believe that in politics you have to pick and choose your battles. In my opinion, Obama’s stand on partial birth abortion is much scarier and damaging to human life than McCain’s energy plan. I also believe that sometimes unappealing actions, such as offshore drilling or going to war, are necessary in order to to achieve the solution.
- I think Obama’s energy plan is unrealistic. While McCain wants to promote all sources of energy and ease our country off of dependence of oil, Obama believes we can end it… just like that. This editorial from the Wall Street Journal explains my feelings exactly regarding Obama’s Energy Plan http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121797838304214973.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks
A Highlight from the article “Currently, alternative sources — wind, solar, biomass, hydroelectric and geothermal — provide less than 7% of yearly domestic consumption. Throw out hydro and geothermal, and it’s only 4%. For the foreseeable future, renewables simply cannot provide the scale and volume of energy needed to meet growing U.S. demand, which is expected to increase by 20% over the next two decades. Even with colossal taxpayer subsidies, renewables probably can’t even slow the rate of growth of carbon-based fuel consumption, much less replace it.”
*Aisling*
