McCain’s Ad Labels Obama “Dr. No”
This spiffy spoof on James Bond features Barack Obama as “Dr. No” for his alleged “opposition to providing the American people with short-term, near-term and long-term relief from higher energy prices,” McCain’s campaign says.
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“Offshore drilling would not lower gas prices today.” This statement is not being negative, it’s a fact. For one, it will be 10 years before we saw any oil from new wells, even if they started today. Secondly, the US uses about 12.4M barrels of oil per day, but only produces around 5M barrels per day. We’re still going to be heavily reliant on imports.
Obama is not alone in thinking that a 3 month gas tax holiday is a bad idea. Try to find one economist who supports it. Can’t be done. Plus, it does absolutely nothing to cut back on our consumption. It does have one benefit- It polls well, which is why McCain keeps flogging it, but I don’t think even McCain believes in it himself. He certainly hasn’t brought to the Senate floor any such legislation, and indeed hasn’t even cast a vote in the Senate since April.
Obama has NEVER said no to electric vehicles. McCain’s proposal to offer a prize for a better battery for electric vehicles sounds like a good idea, until you realize that developing such a battery will cost more than the prize. Where’s the incentive? What Obama has proposed is an all-out government funded effort similar to the Moon program to develop alternative energy sources to replace oil.
“I start out with the premise that nuclear energy is not optimal…” Obama’s not saying that there’s no place for nuke plants, just that they’re not the best or safest solutions. I personally have no problem with nuke plants, just where they decide to put them. Putting them near major metro areas is a stupid idea. Putting a wind farm or a solar energy plant in the middle of a city will not kill a few million people in the event of an accident. Wind and solar are his first choices, not nukes. Get over it. Ask people living in Croton if they’d rather see Indian Point, or a wind farm there on the Hudson. (Not that anything’s likely to change there anytime soon…)
I’m not so crazy about Obama’s support for corn ethanol, but he’s backed off on that a bit, and moved more towards celluosic ethanol, which is not made from food.
This energy discussion has been going on for many
years..In fact when I ran for congress in 1978 I took
the position that we had to allow domestic drilling both
on and offshore …..my opponent dick ottinger a liberal
democrat said that was a bad idea…he wanted solar
wind, geothermal etc but not nuclear which I also suported
Interestingly enough George W, the president heard my
positions on energy while we both were being trained
in washington by the RNCC ..he was running at the time
out of midland texas for congress as well..He listened
to my PAC presentation to the IND oil drillers…I told
them that in order for the US to truly have an independent
mid east foreign policy we could not continue to be
totally reliant on the arab opec nations….He said he
agreed..(by the way I got the endorsment of the gannett
chain for that reason alone)..now 30 years later
we have done nothing, and the net result in 5 dollar
gas…what a real shame..no energy policy through 5 republican and two democratic administrations….
Frankly….it is too late…all the talk about alternative
fuels, and drilling in Anwar or off the coast will not
produce a drop of oil in time to save the economy from
rising prices….Environmentalists and liberal democrats
have totally compromised the energy independence of the
United STates…and so have allegedly conservative republicans….
There’s Walt with his talking points. If Clinton hadn’t vetoed the ANWR drilling bill passed by the Republican Conbgress in ‘95, we’d have been getting oil from there for a few years already, or more.
Obama is “Doctor No.” His only solution is to try a windfall tax on the oil companies, which is dumb. Obama has no solutions. It’s just “no” to everything. Obama stands for nothing. He is an empty suit who can deliver a speech, that’s all. But behind the curtain he is a big-time socialist. That’s the real Obama.
Corn ethanol? What a bad idea. If you saw the AP story yesterday, even some of the ethanol refiners are pulling out. Why? Because the cost of corn is too high.
The ethanol fiasco falls primarily on the Democrats, but also on some Republicans, in particular those from the Farm Belt. And people want Obama’s “big government?” They must be crazy. Government can’t do anything right. Been to an airport lately? That’s another example.
America needs a lot less government, not more.
There’s Wahoo with his head in the sand again, spouting his little bumpersticker sayings and insults from the Free Republic website.
Actually, I watched the video, and was able to pick it apart in the space of about 15 minutes. Did my own research, too. No talking points needed.
I’m not the only one who says McSame’s ad is full of it, BTW. FactCheck.org just came out with a thorough debunking of it just a few minutes ago.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/distorting_obama.html
McCain is going to have to better than that if he is
going to make an energy ad….His media guys better
learn to be accurate otherwise as walt pointed
out the ads will be picked apart and the straight
talking express will be a local!
For every barrel that we produce, what will keep OPEC from dropping their production levels by a barrel? They have a direct interest in manipulating the world supply of oil and whatever oil we pump on or off of our shores will not guarantee that prices will be eased by our domestic oil production.
You hit upon one reason, HL, that oil companies, despite comments to the contrary, don’t especially want to drill extensively for more oil. So long as they can comfortably pass costs on to the public, and maintain record profits, they’re comfortable with the status-quo. This is one of the unspoken realities of the situation no matter which side you fall on,
Or refine, for that matter.
It didn’t take Obama long to once again confirm my appraisal of him, above. He issued an International House of Pancakes waffling statement about the Supreme Court’s
guns decision today. McCain said he supported the Court’s decision.
HL and Ed…all the more reason to get our own oil as fast as possible, correct? To remove ourselves from extortion and control by OPEC.
There goes Wahoo, worrying about all that oil we get from OPEC. In fact, we get about 10M barrels a day total. About half of that comes from OPEC. Most of the rest comes from Canada. We get almost 60% of our oil from imports. Opening ANWR or other fields to drilling, besides not being immediately available, would only reduce our imports by MAYBE 5%. Not that we shouldn’t try to reduce our imports, but 5% less imports ain’t gonna do squat to OPEC. Pull your head out of your butt and smell the coffee.
Figures are from the terribly biased Commie pinko Dep’t of Energy, in case you’re wondering.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/basics/quickoil.html
Hi there, Walt. I saw that your Messiah gave a few interviews today and said no drilling—no nothing. But he did say alternative sources would solve this huge problem by….2030. What the hell, that’s only 22 more years.
I doubt the American people will stand for that.
But then, he’s your Messiah, not mine.
Put a pinwheel in front of a Schumer press conference and light the world.
Not that I see Obama as the Second Coming, but if he was, would that make McCain the AntiChrist? Now THAT I could believe. I guess that would make you a Pharisee?
McCain’s plan- “the White House’s own Energy Information Administration says that exploiting the outer shelf wouldn’t yield noticeable amounts of oil until the 2020s, and even at peak production its impact on oil prices would be “insignificant.— A gas tax holiday won’t do anything to reduce consumption. McCain is basically betting that enough morons want to keep things the way they are, dependent on oil. Honestly, Johnny won’t care, because he’ll be dead by then anyway.
“Politicians have been throwing around all kinds of ideas in response to the skyrocketing energy prices, from the rethinking of nuclear power to pushing biofuels and more renewables and ending the ban on offshore drilling, it goes on and on, the list. But, anyone who tells you this will lower our gas prices anytime soon is blowing smoke.”
Who said it? The Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I’ll let FactCheck.org finish off McCain’s energy plan…
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/mccains_power_outage.html
J-Mac was against offshore drilling up until a week or two ago. He himself has stated that the benefit to starting new drilling offshore would be mainly psychological.
He also failed to even show up to vote in February on an Incentive bill that would have put $3 Billion into renewable/sustainable energy. (BTW, both Clinton & Obama were there, and voted yes. McCain didn’t even show up, and he was IN DC that day.)