"...McCain's Power Outage
Contradictions and misstatements short-circuit McCain's energy policy
pronouncements.
By Viveca Novak and Justin Bank | factcheck.org
Jun 20, 2008 Summary
McCain has spent the week focusing on energy policy, making some
surprising, and inaccurate, statements.
Among them:
He said that ending a moratorium on offshore oil drilling "would be very
helpful in the short term in resolving our energy crisis." But according
to a government re****t, offshore oil wouldn't have much of an impact on
supply or prices until 2030.
McCain tried to paint Obama as an opponent of nuclear power, yet Obama has
said he is open to nuclear energy being part of the solution and has
sup****ted bills that contained nuclear subsidies.
He has soft-pedaled the "cap" ****tion of his cap-and-trade proposal for
greenhouse gases, even denying that it would be a mandate. The cap is a
mandatory limit, however, and McCain even says so on his Web site.
McCain's new ad, running this week, rightly says that he bucked his party
in sup****ting action on climate change years ago. But its images of
windmills
and solar panels are misleading in that he sup****ts subsidies for nuclear
power, which isn't pictured, and opposes them for wind and solar energy.
McCain continues to say that a suspension of the federal gas tax will
lower
prices for consumers, though hundreds of economists say he is wrong...."
More:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/142500
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