McCain Unveils Energy Plan ‘The Lexington Project’

I wonder the cost of such things. I wonder if anyone else have invested Mr. McCain’s Enron loophole and his top advisors who have special interest in such matters. You think gas is unaffordable now, the solution to our independence is going to rob us blind… mark my words!

So, did he have any other plan to end foreign dependance on oil other than adding another 500k barrells/year in 10 years and offering a paltry sum compared to what the free market creation of such a product would bring isn’t exactly going to get us there in 17 years.
His plan is basically 2 steps behind, and 6 months later than Obamas.

he should have started with his 300 million dollar battery—charged with fairy dust——by the way where were you mccain the last 30 years–pushing for nafta—–you are a dollar short and 30 years late–trying to mimic someone else just dont do it.

the Hiroshima Project might be better…

drill drill drill and what will we gain–oil sold on world market –billions more for big oil–our gain o-o-o—-1970s oil embargo nothing done—-do not settle for anything but alternate fuels –nuclear power—and super efficient vehicles—the arabs will try to stop our progress as it will cost them plenty..we must take controll of our future

Obama loves the Saudis, Iran and the big oil companies more than the American people. Obama says no to drilling for oil in the US and the Saudis couldn’t be more pleased. They don’t want more oil on the market driving the price of oil down. Obama says NO to any new oil and gas refineries and the big oil companies are thrilled. They don’t want more refining capacity that will help keep price of gas down. Obama says no to domestic nuclear power that other countries get up to 80% of their clean energy from and the Saudis and big oil are both ecstatic. Neither of them want an alternative to oil and gas that is cleaner and cheaper and domestically produced. Obama is comfortably in their back pocket already, just look at the donations he’s already received from them. That’s why he opted out of public campaign financing, so he could receive more and bigger bribes from everybody who wants to buy his influence. He isn’t new or different, he’s worse than any politician we’ve ever seen. He is a corporate sell out.

George W McCain calling his collection of gimmicks, smoke and mirrors, and desperate poll-driven flip-flops the “Lexington Project” is a direct insult to our TRULY visionary founding fathers.
A better name would be “Project Goldfinger”…becuase it makes the oil companies even richer…and by doing nothing to actually fix the problem…gives working Americans the finger.

joey
no matter how much we drill oil is a limited commodity—–arabs would simply produce less and keep the price up—90 % OF WHAT WE USE IS IMPORTED

Cap and Trade: Obama supports implementation of a market-based cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions by the amount scientists say is necessary: 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Obama’s cap-and-trade system will require all pollution credits to be auctioned. A 100 percent auction ensures that all polluters pay for every ton of emissions they release, rather than giving these emission rights away to coal and oil companies. Some of the revenue generated by auctioning allowances will be used to support the development of clean energy, to invest in energy efficiency improvements, and to address transition costs, including helping American workers affected by this economic transition.
Confront Deforestation and Promote Carbon Sequestration: Obama will develop domestic incentives that reward forest owners, farmers, and ranchers when they plant trees, restore grasslands, or undertake farming practices that capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Invest in a Clean Energy Future
Invest $150 Billion over 10 Years in Clean Energy: Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial-scale renewable energy, invest in low-emissions coal plants, and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid. A principal focus of this fund will be devoted to ensuring that technologies that are developed in the U.S. are rapidly commercialized in the U.S. and deployed around the globe.
Double Energy Research and Development Funding: Obama will double science and research funding for clean energy projects including those that make use of our biomass, solar and wind resources.
Invest in a Skilled Clean Technologies Workforce: Obama will use proceeds from the cap-and-trade auction program to invest in job training and transition programs to help workers and industries adapt to clean technology development and production. Obama will also create an energy-focused Green Jobs Corps to connect disconnected and disadvantaged youth with job skills for a high-growth industry.
Convert our Manufacturing Centers into Clean Technology Leaders: Obama will establish a federal investment program to help manufacturing centers modernize and Americans learn the new skills they need to produce green products.
Clean Technologies Deployment Venture Capital Fund: Obama will create a Clean Technologies Venture Capital Fund to fill a critical gap in U.S. technology development. Obama will invest $10 billion per year into this fund for five years. The fund will partner with existing investment funds and our National Laboratories to ensure that promising technologies move beyond the lab and are commercialized in the U.S
Require 25 Percent of Renewable Electricity by 2025: Obama will establish a 25 percent federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to require that 25 percent of electricity consumed in the U.S. is derived from clean, sustainable energy sources, like solar, wind and geothermal by 2025.
Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology: Obama will significantly increase the resources devoted to the commercialization and deployment of low-carbon coal technologies. Obama will consider whatever policy tools are necessary, including standards that ban new traditional coal facilities, to ensure that we move quickly to commercialize and deploy low carbon coal technology.
Support Next Generation Biofuels
Deploy Cellulosic Ethanol: Obama will invest federal resources, including tax incentives, cash prizes and government contracts into developing the most promising technologies with the goal of getting the first two billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol into the system by 2013.
Expand Locally-Owned Biofuel Refineries: Less than 10 percent of new ethanol production today is from farmer-owned refineries. New ethanol refineries help jumpstart rural economies. Obama will create a number of incentives for local communities to invest in their biofuels refineries.
Establish a National Low Carbon Fuel Standard: Barack Obama will establish a National Low Carbon Fuel Standard to speed the introduction of low-carbon non-petroleum fuels. The standard requires fuels suppliers to reduce the carbon their fuel emits by ten percent by 2020.
Increase Renewable Fuel Standard: Obama will require 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels to be included in the fuel supply by 2022 and will increase that to at least 60 billion gallons of advanced biofuels like cellulosic ethanol by 2030.
Set America on Path to Oil Independence
Obama’s plan will reduce oil consumption by at least 35 percent, or 10 million barrels per day, by 2030. This will more than offset the equivalent of the oil we would import from OPEC nations in 2030.
Increase Fuel Economy Standards: Obama will double fuel economy standards within 18 years. His plan will provide retooling tax credits and loan guarantees for domestic auto plants and parts manufacturers, so that they can build new fuel-efficient cars rather than overseas companies. Obama will also invest in advanced vehicle technology such as advanced lightweight materials and new engines.
Improve Energy Efficiency 50 Percent by 2030
Set National Building Efficiency Goals: Barack Obama will establish a goal of making all new buildings carbon neutral, or produce zero emissions, by 2030. He’ll also establish a national goal of improving new building efficiency by 50 percent and existing building efficiency by 25 percent over the next decade to help us meet the 2030 goal.
Establish a Grant Program for Early Adopters: Obama will create a competitive grant program to award those states and localities that take the first steps to implement new building codes that prioritize energy efficiency.
Invest in a Digital Smart Grid: Obama will pursue a major investment in our utility grid to enable a tremendous increase in renewable generation and accommodate modern energy requirements, such as reliability, smart metering, and distributed storage
Restore U.S. Leadership on Climate Change
Create New Forum of Largest Greenhouse Gas Emitters: Obama will create a Global Energy Forum — that includes all G-8 members plus Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa –the largest energy consuming nations from both the developed and developing world. The forum would focus exclusively on global energy and environmental issues.
Re-Engage with the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change: The UNFCCC process is the main international forum dedicated to addressing the climate problem and an Obama administration will work constructively within it.

joey: Obama beat McCain to comparing it to the Apollo project. In fact that idea was pretty much invented on DailyKos, though its more like DailyKos solidified what many progressive bloggers had already suggested.
McCain seems to be offering a poor imitation of Obama’s plan. The funny thing is, he totally never mentions the U.S. jobs that would result from a massive effort to push homes and car infrastructure to renewables. On the subject of Jobs WRT energy all McCain seems to be able to do is complain that we are giving money to our own farmers instead of gicing it to the ones in Brazil.
How he expects to win by imitating his opponent after the fact, and offering a 300 million dollar award for battery designs that already exist, is beyond me.

we have the tec. since the 1960s to use spent nuke rods—enough to power country for 1000 years do the research

Joey
the saudis know we have that resource if we want…
yes they want to be the main supplier…but us opening our resources because gas is 4 bucks (as opposed to the rest of the world) when some smaller countries have already tapped out and we haven’t seen the use thatis being projected if we continue 10-20 years on this path…with the rest of the world gaining exponentially on what we are sucking down.
do you get that?
that oil is a resource… the oil companies want to own as much as they can to have their choices…
the drilling will not bring speculation down…the markets know if we really wanted it we can get that oil.
and someday we may have to…but what happens if we almost tap out in 30 years and we have not done enough to ge t us off…
what happens to generators and planes who do not have the technology to change in 30 years… 20 years from now it may be a different story…but if our threshold is 4$ and we are slapping our collective arms screaming for more oil… then we are in big trouble.
If we don’t take care of this now…we are not talking a speculative 100 years from now…we are talking about a finite resource that there is no way to grasp what this new global village is going to do to that resource… and a world that can only make so much progress …
but we do know that we have only been using oil for a hundred years and look what we have already done to the worlds supply?
so yeah…Obama is telling the junkies… no no no to that street needle… we need to start getting offoil and out of the influence and power of ever wealthier dealer.
what happens then…

ggg1ggg…you say that nuclear power is “super-cheap energy”.
Care to provide some facts to back up that statement? The fact is, nuclear energy is anything but “cheap”.
It may be the only way to go…but telling Americans they’ll be paying less for it is just lying to them. Let’s just be honest…things are changing. The chicken’s are finally coming home to roost.
Life is going to get a lot better in China and India…and a lot more expensive for Americans. The party’s over.

WANT TO SEE WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR COUNTRY
MAN USING OLD VEGI OIL TO POWER CAR—-MUST PAY 1000 DOLLARS FOR SPECIAL FUEL PERMIT—-PAY 28 CENTS A GALLON TAX—-AND IF CAUGHT ON HIGHWAY 3000 FINE FOR USING UNAPPROVED MOTOR FUEL—–WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH OUR COUNTRY.

HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE DIED FROM NUKE POWER PLANT—-STOP TALKING WITHOUT FACTS YOUR OPINION MEANS NOTHING

4$ a gallon is not the line where we say give me a fix from our private resources…
4$ a gallon is when we get real about the fact that this is a resource that WILL run out.
our stash in mother earth’s safe is already open a crack…we are using that…
if you are all so worried about NOW…then why are you not askign the oil companies why they aren’t drilling where they own already (the places that they have been holding out…but now that GW is leaving their opportunities are shrinking to scare the public into another Iraq fiasco)
there is oil in the regions that they have already been given… and if yuo say otherwise…yuo aren’t stating the truth.
this is a 9/11 so Iraq thing…
and Charlie Black has a waft of Exxon Mobil on his platform.

sell me a vehicle that gets 50 plus gph run on alternate fuel–keep money in our country–AND I WOULD PAY 10.00 PER GALLON AND IT WOULD STILL BE CHEAPER–DO THE MATH.see if you have the guts to put an end to the arabs and big oil.

wilder
speculation is not fact—–we have far greater tec. than you can imagine.

check on russian tec at present time—chernoble would rate as antique—three mile island and no deaths——also ever hear of nuclear medicine.

the issue is John McCain either tries to seel some simple solution that really isn’t simple and in some cases makes things worse…
or he is trying to spin an idea that no doubt came through Charlie Black disguised as a help to consumers and the market when really it is an idea from the oil companies as to how to solve the problem…
the battery idea was a great one…but like obama saisd…when JFK wanted to go to the money…he didn’t put out a bounty for it… he had America itself dive right in…
this is our “race to the moon” who can invent and start the industry that is the alternative to oil.
Just like the race to the moon…there were people studying it and attempting but until the US govt. got involved in a serious endeavor only then did we make it happen.
we need nuclear…but it needs to be safe and planned…not freaking promising 55 nuclear power plants in 20 years like some housing development.
ugh.

parting thought—-play into big oil plans and you will pay the price and it will not only be dollars——i live in pa.–30 miles north nuke plant–50 miles south nuke plant–5 miles north 70 wind generators being constructed—and RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF COAL REGION–the rest of you people must demand progress–the security of our country depends on it—more people havve died from fossil fuels than all others put together

The Lexington Project may not be a perfect plasn but it sure is better than anything Senator Obama has proposed so far. His plan is all smoke and mirrors. None of these new energy sources will bring our energy cost down much but with conservation and new energy savings concepts, we will muddle through.
Obama has stated that he is a visionary-one who can see the future. The only problem, it is nothing more than a mirage. It is a temporary vision. It disappears.

rodney…10,000 deaths from Chernobyl is not my opinion, it’s fact.
Are you too lazy to do a search on the internet? It’s very well documented. Facts are EASY to find.
As for your claim that the technology is better now…what are YOUR “facts” to back that up? Most accidents at nuclear plants are caused by HUMAN ERROR. How much has THAT improved?
Give us some facts, rodney. Your OPINION is proving TOTALLY WORTHLESS.

Growing algea on algea farms in Arizona will be a short term and long term solutionto produce fuel.Much more profitable than growing corn on limited agricultural farm lands.One acre ofcorn only produce 185 gallon of fuel, but one acre of algeacoul produce 9000 gallon of fuel.

Did Obama copy his plan from Hillary’s plan months ago, I mean, before McCain supposedly copied Obama’s? What’s that you say, his own original plan? You have got to be kidding me! For those of you who have Hillary’s plans, check it out, if it hasn’t been deleted.
If McCain has a goal of 2025 to make us energy independent, that sounds reasonable to me. In the meantime, how are you going to help all the people whose jobs depend on oil? By the time some people get help, they will have lost their jobs and will be starving. If the airlines and trucking industry cannot cope, how can low and middle income Americans? John McCain makes good sense. Obama is just talk.

Some casual facts
FACT 1 We import approximately 60% of our oil we use.
Fact 2 It is impossible for a Chernobyl accident to occur in the US. Why? The russian design has a two foot thick containment vessel that the core melted through. The “paranoid” US required 10 foot thick steel reinforced containment vessels. 3 mile island barely put a dent in its containment vessel.
Fact 3 Dems and Repubs are both in corporates pocket. Look at the farm bill and why ole GW vetoed it. Congress and the Senate both wanted the corporate money. Get the facts before you spew nonsense.
Opinion stated here. Everyone wants to blame conspiracies, speculators, and corporations for the energy problems. It seems a simple issue to me. Oil supply/ pulled out of the ground now meets our demand. We are not quickly running out of oil. We have not been drilling enough to keep up with demand. If it is this simple issue then the price of oil is going to keep going up and our lifestyle will suffer and yet no one even wants to think about that possibility. Obama vs McCain. What does it matter? Bottom line both are politicians and will say whatever they will to get elected. Both are going to bankrupt the US just in different ways.

“Never again will we leave our vital interests at the mercy of any foreign power,” he said.”
Yeah, and we really believe you just like we believe President Bush is a Christian!

What ever your views on energy are I think there is one overwhelming consensus, and that is we (the world) are increasing energy consumption as energy production is lagging behind. Emerging nations are increasing production and nearly all resources are in particularly high demand. But what does that mean for us Americans? No one knows for sure but it is undoubtedly going to change the way we are currently living. To the degree, I’m not sure but and article I was read a day or two ago called Oil Defies a Correction and it talks about the cause of oil prices, how if effects production, and how that in turn effects our lives. It also gives a prediction from a Harvard graduate on our future. I hope this article is as thought inducing for others as it was for me. I’m not saying its right or wrong but does bring up a lot of very valid points that should be addressed by all Americans. Thanks, let me know what ya’ll think.
The Link to that article is
http://www.energyandoil.com/oil-defies-a-correction
Let me know what you think!

The answer is very simple and can be implemented in 5 years. Step 1: cover the roof of every house, office building, store, every structure in America with thin film solar. Step 2 make every power company let electric meters run backwards when the solar cells produce excess power, make sure loans are provided to ensure 48 to 72 month payback on the solar investment. Step 3: bring back the electric car with imporved batteries or an onboard H2O to Hyrorgen converter that can be powered off the solar panels. DONE DEAL A massive program will allow scaled up thin film solar to scale up and reduce prices. THE TECHNOLOGY IS ALREADY HERE.

Solar energy, doesn’t need to be secured, doesn’t need to be transported, can be prodeced by anyone, can’t be weaponized, is not a terrorist target, not subject to widespread massive failure, will keep producing after a natural disaster, doesn’t need to be insured for liability, produces zero emmissions, will qualify for carbon offset credits, it will pay for itself very quickly and then its nearly free, can be made available to all people everywhere for an affordable price. SO WHAT WOULD BE A RESONABLE AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO INVEST TO MAKE THIS A REALITY?

i find it disheartening to hear both side argue about fuel. actually if each side changed their lifestyles and worked at the town level (esp the large cities) to induce mass transit, change zone regulations, use cars less then the grass-roots/public could dictate better use of our current rate of consumption and perhaps reduce it… hpwever the public is slow to react and would rather point fingers and try to get the ‘parents’ t take a action to make them happy and force the other kid to do what they think…. just cut back and change ur lifestyle and ud be amazed how much u can cut ur current carbon footprint (and money ud save)