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My take on Mc Cain's energy policy for Pajamas Media

by Jerome a Paris
Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 07:34:13 AM EST

McCain's Energy Plan: Correct Diagnosis, Killer Prescription
John McCain seems to have identified our energy problems accurately. But are his solutions equally laudable?
June 26, 2008 - by Jérôme Guillet
With gas topping $4 per gallon and oil prices seemingly reaching new highs every week, more pain at the pump is certain in the foreseeable future, and energy policy is rightfully claiming its place as a major topic of the 2008 election. Indeed, John McCain gave a major campaign speech earlier this week in Houston specifically on energy (the full transcript can be found here) and addresses the issue again this week in Santa Barbara. It is worth looking in more detail at how he describes the current situation, and what he is proposing.

Go read the rest over at Pajamas Media (at the link above). I will copy it below on this thread in 48 hours.

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My take on Mc Cain's energy policy for Pajamas Media | 10 comments (10 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: My take on Mc Cain's energy policy for Pajamas (none / 0)

Nice touch, quoting from Fox News to make your point about US attitudes towards global warming. Kinda hard to claim "liberal bias" there.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.

by ARGeezer (argeezer@yahoo.com) on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 02:19:55 PM EST

Re: My take on Mc Cain's energy policy for Pajamas (none / 0)

Kinda hard to claim "liberal bias" in Pajamas Media.

"This is nothing compared to how Putin rigged Eurovision."

by poemless on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 02:24:51 PM EST
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My goal (none / 0)

was to write a text that would get some points across without being dismissed right away as a partisan hit piece.

The early comments seem reasonable.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 02:58:13 PM EST
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Re: My goal (none / 1)

You will forgive me if I wait for 48h to read it here so I don't have to comment on pajamas media...

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 03:01:19 PM EST
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Re: My goal (none / 0)

Aw, come on, it could be fun.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 08:51:40 PM EST
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Re: My goal (none / 1)

I think you did a very good job of it. Smart idea, doing it on PJM -- regardless of partisan politics, that's an audience that needs to be reached if we're going to shift the overall debate on energy policy toward something less suicidal.

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Sat Jun 28th, 2008 at 04:12:47 AM EST
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Hopefully you got paid (4.00 / 2)

I found this comment from freetoken amusing:

"Especially appreciated are the inline links to the data and information sources spoken of in the article."

Maybe supporting an argument with evidence isn't commonplace at PJM (or the rightwing blogosphere).

by Magnifico on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 04:27:55 PM EST

I did (well, I will.. (4.00 / 2)

once I fill out a surprisingly large number of forms)

Yes, I scoffed at that comment too. But overall the comments are not hostile.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 06:55:19 PM EST
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Re: I did (well, I will.. (none / 1)

Cheese-eating surrender monkey on PJM. The apocalypse is truly here.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 08:52:34 PM EST
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Re: My take on Mc Cain's energy policy for Pajamas (none / 1)

Perhaps this analysis of McCain's "energy policy" takes too seriously the idea that McCain even has an energy policy. However, let's ignore the questions of what interests are actually behind him.

J's article does seem to analyze the positions on gas, coal and nuclear. But where is the comment on the glaring lack of McCain addressing renewables?

My 3+ decades at policy levels of the energy discussion in the US tells me that most of the decision-makers should be serving time in the slammer, which is how they will be judged by their children or grandchildren.

When we analyze energy policy anywhere in the US, we should not forget the surrounding frame: these entities have despoiled the planet, stomped on cultures, brought chaos to energy rich parts of the world, and most importantly, have blatantly held back the development of renewables for decades.

At least from my perspective, there's a giant sense of outrage missing from this analysis.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Jun 27th, 2008 at 05:12:12 AM EST

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