Palin-McCain: Can't Get Energy Facts Right
Getting facts wrong when it comes to energy issues is becoming standard for the Palin-McCain ticket.
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Both Ways on Coal? Obama, McCain Embrace "Clean Coal," Not Mountaintop Removal
The Daily Green | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green
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In a story, fittingly, featured in the Charleston Gazette, in West Virginia's coal country, about people are puzzling over how John McCain and Barack ...
New McCain Economic Plan: Sell More Gas Guzzlers
Josh Dorner | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
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McCain trumpets his support for government loans to help the auto industry. What he doesn't tell you is that he was opposed to helping the automakers until just last month.
McCain's Nuclear Plan Could Cost $315 Billion
Bloomberg | Elliot Blair Smith | Posted 09.16.2008 | Green
John McCain's plan to revive the U.S. nuclear power industry with 45 new reactors may cost $315 billion, with taxpayers bearing much of the financial ...
Palin Changes Tune: Man Is "Potentially Causing Some Of The Changes"
Grist | David Roberts | Posted 09.12.2008 | Green
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In her first substantial interview with a news journalist since being picked as John McCain's vice presidential candidate two weeks ago, Sarah Palin m...
Obama's and McCain's Green Promises Are Just a Matter of Speech
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 09.10.2008 | Green
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Obama said this about solar power. McCain said that about climate change. You no longer have to spar with your "green" friends over who is saying what...
"Drill, Baby, Drill" Remix Contest at Wired Science
Dave Burdick | Posted 09.06.2008 | Green
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In recognition of the baffling popularity of the chant "Drill, baby, drill" at the Republican National Convention, Wired Science has put out a call for creatively remixed videos involving the chant.
In His Big Speech, McCain's 10 Energy Lies Top Palin's 4 Energy Lies
Joseph Romm | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics
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McCain has no plan to reduce oil imports -- indeed, throughout his career he has explicitly rejected every plan that might reduce oil imports.
Palin's Acceptance Speech Bullish On Energy
Kate Sheppard | Posted 09.04.2008 | Green
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grist.org Sarah Palin's much-anticipated VP acceptance speech on Wednesday night included a lot of energy talk -- and extensive criticism of Barack O...
Obama Is The Only Remaining Green Candidate, Says Times' Friedman
New York Times | Thomas L. Friedman | Posted 09.03.2008 | Green
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As we emerge from Labor Day, college students are gathering back on campuses not only to start the fall semester, but also, in some cases, to vote for...
McCain, Republican Party Platform Differ On Climate Change
Bloomberg | Posted 09.02.2008 | Green
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Climate change is another area where the platform and candidate differ. The language of the 2008 platform is little changed from 2004, adding that "Re...
Sarah Palin's Taken $125,000 Cash from Oil Companies
Richard Arthur | Posted 08.31.2008 | Green
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By my estimate, Palin and her husband have received $27,536.41 each and her children collectively $69,766.09 -- all just for living in Alaska and tacitly supporting the Big Oil agenda.
Why Does John McCain Hate the American Worker?
Lloyd Alter | Posted 08.24.2008 | Business
McCain says "Drill here, drill now!" to reduce the price of gas, but every time the price of oil goes up, more jobs return from China, and first to the basic heavy industries like steel. Why does he hate the rust belt states? Or, for that matter, Mexico?
McCain Would Raise Energy Bills for Ohio and all America
Joseph Romm | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
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What happens when your country is 50% dependent on coal, and you foolishly adopt McCain's energy and climate plans. Your electricity rates and bills will soar, for several reasons.
'Obama's Energy Plan' Puts the Pressure on McCain
Elizabeth Rogers | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green
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If all 173 million vehicles in America driving around had their tires inflated properly, the total gas savings would be nearly 88 million barrels of oil per year. Who's laughing now?
John McCain's Greatest Misses
Carl Pope | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
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It's hard to understand how McCain can pretend that he is doing anything other than chasing the polls -- and the oil and nuclear industry's increasingly abundant lubrication of his campaign.
Lies, Damn Lies, and the McCain Campaign
Joseph Romm | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
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McCain has morphed into Dick Cheney's evil twin, hellbent on destroying the possibility of ever having serious energy and climate policy in this country.
McCain Visits Nuclear Power Plant That Had Meltdown In 1960s
AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
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RAPID CITY, S.D. — John McCain conceded in a new television commercial on Tuesday that "we're worse off than we were four years ago," and said h...
Obama Calls McCain's Bluff on Drilling
Alan Fein | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green
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While McCain says he's all for alternative energy, it's kind of like No Child Left Behind -- he doesn't want to help pay for it, especially if it's going to come out of the pockets of the oil companies.
Obama, McCain Positions On Clean Coal: Not That Far Apart (VIDEO)
CNN | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green
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Both major presidential candidates have written "clean coal" into their energy plans. CNN discussed just how similar the big two are. WATCH: ...
WSJ Columnist: Is McCain Losing It?
Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
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Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger looks at John McCain's tax policy and concludes, "This isn't a flip-flop. It's a sex-change operation."...
A Drilled Reputation
Javier Sierra | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green
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The environmental movement calls on McCain to support the Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008, which would repeal subsidies from Big Oil and increase funding for renewables, efficiency and conservation.
McCain's Energy Ignorance
Diane Francis | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green
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John McCain foolishly credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of the offshore drill ban. What's he going to do when prices nudge or jump upwards again?
McCain Camp Calls for More Immediate Action on Energy - McCain Campaign Press Call 7.24.08 AUDIO
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home
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WHO: Senior Foreign Policy Adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin and Senior Policy Adviser and Spokeswoman Nancy Pfotenhauer WHAT: Campaign press conference ca...
McCain Credits Bush With $10 Per Barrel Oil Price Drop
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Republican John McCain pushed back on Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered b...
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A. Siegel | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics