Comments on: McCain: Why, drilling in ANWR would be like drilling in the Grand Canyon

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Actually, Palin’s endorsement of McCain really does stink

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:26:05 +0000

[...] for domestic drilling, including in the ANWR area. McCain, on the other hand? He not only is against drilling in ANWR, but has long partook of the AGW kool-aid. Cap and Trade is another area where McCain and Obama get [...]

By: Bogus Gold

Bogus Gold — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:23:35 +0000

A Winning Republican Message Squandered…

(hat-tip Andy A.)
The above is a great, compelling, and relevant mess……

By: Classical Values

Classical Values — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:26:53 +0000

Inspiring Town Hall meeting at the birthplace of the Constitution…

Philadelphia is one of the most heavily Democrat cities there is. So, when I read that John McCain’s Straight Talk America was coming to Philadelphia for a Town Hall, I just had to go. That required standing in a long……

By: fleiter

fleiter — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:32:32 +0000

Aquaviva:

Thank you for posting the National Review article. I have been to ANWR as a reporter and this is the best description of the place that I have ever read. It is as desolate and ugly a place as anyone can imagine.

By: Squiggy

Squiggy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:53:40 +0000

With Barry in office at least the GOP will have the balls to oppose him. That reason alone in enough for me.

edgehead on June 11, 2008 at 9:55 PM

Really? And just who would lead the charge? Newt is history.

Jeff Sessions, maybe? He’s got the cred, but I don’t know.

By: aquaviva

aquaviva — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:29:21 +0000

In 2001 Jonah Goldberg visited and then wrote a Nat. Rev. cover story on the “pristine” and “beautiful” ANWR.

It is a must read

“The horror of ANWR, the American elites favorite Hellhole”

Unfortunately, with McCain as our nominee….well, let’s just say we will get to use neither the issue nor the oil.

By: wise_man

wise_man — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:25:30 +0000

You Bloomburg Republicans make me sick!
edgehead on June 11, 2008 at 9:55 PM

Who in the where with the what now?

By: Talon

Talon — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:59:46 +0000

With Barry in office at least the GOP will have the balls to oppose him. That reason alone in enough for me.

edgehead on June 11, 2008 at 9:55 PM

I am beginning to wonder about that too. GOP and “Malkins” don’t mix these days.

Obama is a constant. You can guarantee which way he will move. McCain….never.

The only time the dems “reach across the isle” is to help John McCain to their side. And off he goes.

This November, America is going to get what it asked for.

God help us.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:57:25 +0000

And edgehead, the GOP has shown a willingness to turn on Republican presidents. They do it all the time.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:55:59 +0000

I think we need to drill more oil too, and I hope McCain changes his mind on ANWR, but he does support off shore drilling, if the states support it. I am not sure how that would work. I went to his site and read what he had to say about energy. This is an excerpt:

The strategy I propose won’t be another grab bag of handouts to this or that industry and a full employment act for lobbyists. It will promote the diversification and conservation of our energy sources that will in sufficient time break the dominance of oil in our transportation sector just as we diversified away from oil use in electric power generation thirty years ago; and substantially reduce the impact of our energy consumption on the planet. It will rely on the genius and technological prowess of American industry and science. Government must set achievable goals, but the markets should be free to produce the means. And those means are within our reach.

Energy efficiency by using improved technology and practicing sensible habits in our homes, businesses and automobiles is a big part of the answer, and is something we can achieve right now. And new advances will make conservation an ever more important part of the solution. Improved light bulbs can use much less energy; smart grid technology can help homeowners and businesses lower their energy use, and breakthroughs in high tech materials can greatly improve fuel efficiency in the transportation sector. We need to dispel the image of conservation that entails shivering in cold rooms, reading by candlelight, and lower productivity. Americans have it in their power today to contribute to our national security, prosperity and a cleaner environment. They understand the dangers we face, and are prepared to respond to appeals to patriotism that explain how we can free ourselves from them.

We need not wait for another age, in which science fiction becomes every day reality. Flexible-fuel vehicles aren’t futuristic pie in the sky. We can easily deploy such technology today for less than $100 per vehicle; and we must develop the infrastructure necessary to take full advantage. We were able to overcome the challenges of putting seatbelts, airbags, and computer technology in practically every car. We can provide fuel options and improve the fuel efficiency of our vehicle fleet by making them out of high tech materials that improve their strength and safety. We are doing that very thing right now to beat our foreign competitors in the aerospace industry.

Alcohol fuels made from corn, sugar, switch grass and many other sources, fuel cells, biodiesel derived from waste products, natural gas, and other technologies are all promising and available alternatives to oil. I won’t support subsidizing every alternative or tariffs that restrict the healthy competition that stimulates innovation and lower costs. But I’ll encourage the development of infrastructure and market growth necessary for these products to compete, and let consumers choose the winners. I’ve never known an American entrepreneur worthy of the name who wouldn’t rather compete for sales than subsidies.

America’s electricity production is for the most part petroleum free, and the existing electric power grid has the capacity to handle the added demand imposed by plug-in hybrid vehicles. We can add more capacity and improve its reliability in the years ahead. Nuclear energy, renewable power, and other emission free forms of power production can expand capacity, improve local air quality and address climate change. I’ll work to promote real partnerships between utilities and automakers to accelerate the deployment of plug-in hybrids.

With some of the savings from cutting subsidies for industries that can stand on their own, we can establish a national challenge to improve the cost, range, size, and weight of electric batteries for automobiles. Fifty percent of cars on the road are driven 25 miles a day or less. Affordable battery-powered vehicles that can meet average commuter needs could help us cut oil imports in half. The reward will be earned through merit by whomever accomplishes the task, whether a laboratory in the Department of Energy, a university, a corporation or an enterprising young inventor who works out of his family’s garage.

There is much we can do to increase our own oil production in ways that protect the environment using advanced technologies, including those that use and bury carbon dioxide, to recover the oil below the wells we have already drilled, and tap oil, natural gas, and shale economically with minimal environmental impact.

The United States has coal reserves more abundant than Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves. We found a way to cut down acid rain pollutants from burning coal, and we can find a way to use our coal resources without emitting excessive greenhouse gases.

By: edgehead

edgehead — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:55:44 +0000

In addition to the typos, there was a lot wrong factually as well.

wise_man on June 11, 2008 at 6:48 PM

OK Einstien. What exactly was wrong factually?

We’ve had 8 years of a President who claimed to be a conservative and governed as a moderate (tax cuts, judges, war excluded). Bush gave in to the Dems on every time he could. His Presidency and the party is in a shambles as a result. Bush’s popularity is near single digits not because of the war as his detractors whould have you believe. It’s because he’s abandoned his base on FAR too many issues.

You Bloomburg Republicans make me sick! As long as the White House has an R in it, you’re OK.
With Barry or Johnny we conservatives have NOTHING!
With Barry in office at least the GOP will have the balls to oppose him. That reason alone in enough for me.

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:49:04 +0000

DRILL HERE! DRILL NOW!! PAY LE$$!! MCClutz has THE winning issue... and fumbles it like a no-handed, one-legged, legally-blind baboon. This is a national security matter, not an eco-beauty contest. If the nation remains strong, we could dig another damned Grand Canyon if we wanted one. But, if we allow our country to be undermined for uber-Greenie whims of Purity, the whole nation will look like ANWR. A "pristine" wasteland. As the Chinese speed past our self-hamstrung economy, laughing: "Ching-Chong, Ching-Chong! at us" (to quote Rosie O'Donnell). DRILL HERE!! DRILL NOW!! PAY LE$$!!

By: Nichevo

Nichevo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:24:17 +0000

In summary, let me just say that McCain is a complete and nearly total dipstick. Any notion that he has a functioning brain is quickly disproved by asking him about domestic oil exploration and production.
Jaibones on June 11, 2008 at 4:53 PM

The synapses of his brain are filled with cement.

I am by NO MEANS saying I think he’s right, but I would say up to $10.00/ gallon, the average American voter would prefer we did not drill in Alaska.
beefytee on June 11, 2008 at 5:12 PM

That’s a joke, right?

The only way I could see this hurting him is if republicans simply don’t vote because they disagree with him…which is really pretty frigging idiotic, and I would thing republicans were smarter than this. You don’t hand your opponent a victory because you disagree with the guy wearing your uniform…that’s retarded.
beefytee on June 11, 2008 at 5:27 PM

No, I guess it’s not a joke. Grasshopper, you severely underestimate voter anger — it has nothing to do with uniforms.

The people I associate with on a daily basis (range from school teachers to hedge fund managers, to musicians, to office workers in various capacities to of other randoms) Ulitmately choose conservation in our discussions.

The fund managers main arguments are that by the time it is online and producing enough to make a difference, the crisis will be averted, and we’ll have moved at least to a greener state of mind if not a greener society all together.
beefytee on June 11, 2008 at 5:34 PM

Ah, it become clearer — green is better, always, ever and no matter what.

By: swampleg

swampleg — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:12:06 +0000

No. Drilling in ANWR is not like drilling in the Grand Canyon. There is no oil in the Grand Canyon.

By: KSgop

KSgop — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:50:16 +0000

McCain = Obama = McCain. They’re one in the same.

By: flenser

flenser — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:41:42 +0000

It’s painful to be forced to vote for that idiot McCain simply because he’s not Obama.

Then don’t. If five percent of conservatives start polling as supporting Chuck Baldwin and the Constitution Party, it will send the neccesary message to the GOP leadership – move right.

You’re not as powerless as you think you are.

By: flenser

flenser — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:33:36 +0000

They are NIYBY’s. Not In Your Back Yard.

By: jdkchem

jdkchem — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:23:17 +0000

Funny that the same people who refuse to drill in ANWR, off Florida etc. are the same ones who have no problem with building McMansions here in Colorado and becoming a never ending nuisance in the process.

By: madmonkphotog

madmonkphotog — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:13:24 +0000

Why not?

Allow illegals in the country. Choke the economy, which the pols care more about than Americans, by keeping gas prices high.

The longer I hear “drilling won’t have any immediate effect” the more time that passes that drilling would make a difference.

By: misterpeasea

misterpeasea — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:02:59 +0000

Exit question: How high do gas prices have to get before that precious 0.01 percent starts to look somewhat less pristine? Do we need to see actual gas lines? Or does Obama’s weakness here mean McCain can safely ignore this issue for the time being?

Again, the Republicans will veer as far left as we will let them. The arguments that we have no choice or that Bambi is too dangerous to allow into the White House are adding to the leftward drift.

The only rebuke, the only message politicians understand is losing.

We can start getting the idiots back on track now, or we can let them keep drifting.

If McCain wins, expect a bunch more Mavericks.

By: upinak

upinak — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:38:45 +0000

jwp1964 on June 11, 2008 at 7:23 PM

Well I don’t see that happening… but I have a odd feeling something is about to happen.

By: jwp1964

jwp1964 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:23:44 +0000

upinak on June 11, 2008 at 7:21 PM

If we could dump McCain for Palin I’d sign on for that.

jwp

By: upinak

upinak — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:21:16 +0000

jwp1964 on June 11, 2008 at 7:09 PM

my guy?

You mean my “Girl”.. who is Sarah Palin! McCain wasn’t my first choice but you don’t see me complaining about it.

I think you need to realize something. You are either with Obama or agaisnt Obama, and right now.. there is no freaking way on God’s Green Earth that I would go towards the Obamessiah, even at gun point.

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:15:39 +0000

BS! There is NOTHING on the horizon to replace oil and there will not be for generations. We’ve got over 300 years worth of proven reserves right now! Compared to the alternatives, oil is cheap, clean burning and easy to access. We should be drilling in every conceivable spot on earth until we satisfy the demand.

edgehead on June 11, 2008 at 5:54 PM

You must be including coal. I’m head of the line in doubting Global Warming(tm), but we aren’t going to win any elections on the image of firing up more coal burners right now. There is work to be done in showing it can be done cleanly, even assuming we can convince people that CO2 is actually a fertilizer.

Anyway, there are several full scale solar-thermal plants being built now. Part of the problem is the tech is not yet proven, which keeps the interest rate high, which prevents it from being proven. It could take years to find out what maintenance costs are as the system ages.

By: jwp1964

jwp1964 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:09:06 +0000

jwp1964 on June 11, 2008 at 6:58 PM

Why not move to the dark side now?

**Waves goodbye**

upinak on June 11, 2008 at 7:04 PM

The dark side depends on your perspective…seems to me your guy has already made the trip!