Tag: Energy policy
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Oh, Paris!
Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad The ad opens with Obama making his speech in front of 200,000 Berliners, which according to John McCain, is a bad thing. The chant Obama! Obama! is piped in to the strains of some music. There’s a montage of old people and things, including the Golden Girls and Tales…
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Compare and Contrast
Obama: National Priority Script: John McCain. He’s been in Washington for 26 years. And as gas prices soared and dependence on oil exploded, McCain was voting against alternative energy, against higher mileage standards. Barack Obama. He’ll make energy independence an urgent national priority, raise mileage standards, fast-track technology for alternative fuels. A thousand dollar tax…
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Political news roundup
On His 47th Birthday, Obama Is All Business CBS News (CHICAGO) – It’s Barack Obama’s 47th birthday, but from his campaign schedule you wouldn’t know it. Obama will hit the trail today to kick off what the campaign is calling “Energy Week. Obama proposes tapping oil reserves to drive down gas prices AP LANSING, Mich.…
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A good Obama comebacker
“Pocket” TV Ad Obama unveils energy plan, new attacks on McCain (CNN) — Barack Obama’s campaign released a television ad Monday that calls for a windfall profits tax and accuses John McCain of being in the pocket of big oil. The ad charges that major oil companies have donated $2 million to McCain’s campaign and…
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The Rampant Audacity of the McCain Campaign
This is rich. John McCain released a new political advertisement that fingers the person responsible for the runaway energy costs in this country. No, it is not greedy oil cartels, the Exxon-Mobils of this world. And you would be dangerously mistaken if you somehow blame the Saudis and other oil-producing nations of OPEC. Don’t even…
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Data point . . .
Sen. Jim Webb brought up another subject on that video: Speaking of oil going to $130, we should all remember that the month that Congress approved this war in Iraq, oil was $24 (a barrel). Asked about the spectacle of Pres. George W. Bush panhandling around Saudi Arabia, offering the royal family there inducements to…