As the energy crisis lumbers along, eating the average American alive with the ever escalating prices that go with it, John McCain has no idea about what to do about it except to keep exploiting the finite resource of Petroleum and to start building more Nuclear plants.
This is, sadly, a completely unacceptable vision for this country, more of the same does nothing but continue the misery.
The completely free to everyone source of energy, Solar, isn’t even mentioned.
It is painfully obvious to anyone trying to get by these days that the price of oil is quickly becoming a national disaster.
Cheap solar panel kits are now available in sufficient numbers that the Federal Government should make the installation of these to home owners and business alike a 100% tax write off just out of common sense.
Wind power is making a huge appearance here in the Pacific Northwest along the border between Oregon and Washington and has already started producing significant amounts of electricity. More are being built every day.
I see where Mr. McCain has called for a “reward” of 500 million dollars to anyone that can come up with a new battery to be used in cars.
Once again, the Senator from Arizona shows how out of touch he is with the concept of modern technology.
There have been companies working towards that goal for over ten years already.
Electric and other alternative energy vehicles must be brought online now, the internal combustion engine has run it’s course as the most reliable and inexpensive means of transportation.
Being a mechanic, it pains me to say that but I am being realistic here.
There will still be just as great a need for trained technicians to perform upkeep on the newest technologies that come to the fore.
Our government is too deeply in the back pocket of Big Oil and the strangle hold they have on consumers needs to be broken.
We have the technology, it is out there running around on our streets as I type.
What we don’t have is a comprehensive energy policy to meet the energy needs of this country in the next ten years let alone fifty or a hundred.
Senator McCain wants to cling to the old school ways at a time when we should be building new schools with new trains of thought and get the innovative juices flowing with incentives from our government and do not include the heads of the large oil companies directing our energy policies.
Necessity is the mother of invention, now is the time to explore other methods of producing energy that don’t have punching holes in the earths crust as the main tactic.
June 25, 2008 at 6:22 pm |
You have my respect. I haven’t been able to work on my cars since they had distributor caps. Now you need to be an electronics genious.
I think McLame needs to go the way of the Edsel. We need a junkyard for old senators.
There are so many ways to produce energy it’s not funny but these oil companies are to busy counting their money. I think technology is about to pass them by. And you are right it’s been status quo for too long.
June 25, 2008 at 6:50 pm |
LOL too true @ dinosaur…i bet the people at the mill would love to see this article
June 26, 2008 at 6:07 am |
Word!
June 26, 2008 at 7:05 am |
Of course yes Mr. Busted but—- we are not going to get the legislation out of our government even after this coming election that we have needed long before this because they will whore themselves out to the lobbyists as usual. Hate to have this continual shitty attitude but thats the reality that we are dealt from these bastards and the bill for this is starting to come due.
June 26, 2008 at 2:33 pm |
… the internal combustion engine has run it’s course as the most reliable and inexpensive means of transportation.
When I say this to my hotrodder and mechanic friends, they all look at me like I’m crazy or a traitor. Personally, I can’t wait to see what we dream up next that will go fast. Good on ya, Nucks. Another mechanic who ain’t stuck in the mud (or petroleum, as it were).
June 27, 2008 at 1:31 am |
The best thing that McCain, or any legislator could do is set up a carbon offsets system for automobile manufacturers. Electric and hybrid cars would naturally be favored in such a system. Half a billion in reward money is for the birds – they’d be better off putting it into scientific grant programs. Come to think of it, that’s probably what McCain would rob to set up the reward fund.