Blog Entries tagged 'Energy Policy'

Sarah Palin is McCain's Veep

krasney@fas.harvard.edu — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +0100

It looks like Sarah Palin, the second-year Alaska governor, is John McCain's veep nominee.

Picking a pro-choice, pro-death penality, anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, female governor from Alaska plays to several key constituancies for McCain. It appeals to embittered Hillary supporters; women; oil interests; coal interests; auto inter [...]

Obama Energy Letdown

krasney@fas.harvard.edu — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Well, it looks like Barack Obama has finally cracked under the pressure:

"My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices," Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.

"If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage - I don't want to be so rigid that [...]

Obama Caused High Gas Prices? You're better than this, McCain.

krasney@fas.harvard.edu — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:00:00 +0100

In apparent desperation, McCain has turned to some pretty disingenuous attack ads against Obama. The first one to startle me, a former McCain fan, was this one, entitled "Pump:"

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FactCheck.org, the non-partisan group charged with assessing political ad claims, calls the ad "ridiculous" and "a full tank of nonsense." They go on:

"What's not true, however, is that current opposi [...]