Obama and McCain Debate Touches On Energy Policy

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In a often contentious debate tonight at the Presidentials Debates at Ole Miss University in Oxford, Mississippi, both Senators John McCain and Barrack Obama touched on the measures they will take to advance alternative and renewable energy as part of their energy policies as President.

“As president as a result of whatever financial rescue plan comes about and the billion, $700 billion, whatever it is it’s going to cost, what are you going to have to give up, in terms of the priorities that you would bring as president of the United States, as a result of having to pay for the financial rescue plan,” asked Jim Lehrer, debate moderator and host of Newshour on PBS, first to Sen. Obama.

“Well, there are a range of things that are probably going to have to be delayed. We don’t yet know what our tax revenues are going to be. The economy is slowing down, so it’s hard to anticipate right now what the budget is going to look like next year,” Obama answered.

“But there’s no doubt that we’re not going to be able to do everything that I think needs to be done. There are some things that I think have to be done,” he continued.

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Obama simply stomped McSame on the issue of energy and the need to get off foreign oil.

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1. Here's a question I'd like them to answer about our energy policy.

Relative to our Silk Road plan for Afghanistan and that whole neighborhood around
the Caspian Sea corridor (pipelines) - If we plan to maintain and expand that Caspian corridor isn't that also part of our energy policy that we should be discussing? Oil and gas? It seems that if we are committed to Afghanistan and its immediate region then that also suggests we are committed to continuing our consumption and dependency on foreign oil and gas.

Of course to be heard, this question would have to enter the public dialogue, which is unlikely.