SPRINGFIELD, Mo., June 18, 2008
McCain Calls For Nuclear Power Expansion
Ariz. Senator Wants More Reactors Built, Increased Funding For Clean Coal
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks during a campaign event at Missouri State University in Springfield , Mo., Wednesday, June 18, 2008. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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In a second straight day of campaigning devoted to the energy issue, the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting also said the only time Democratic rival Barack Obama voted for a tax cut it was a "break for the oil companies."
McCain said the 104 nuclear reactors currently operating around the country produce about 20 percent of the nation's annual electricity needs.
"Every year, these reactors alone spare the atmosphere from the equivalent of nearly all auto emissions in America. Yet for all these benefits, we have not broken ground on a single nuclear plant in over thirty years," he said. "And our manufacturing base to even construct these plants is almost gone."
Even so, he said he would set the country on a course to build 45 new ones by 2030, with a longer-term goal of adding another 55 in the future.
"We will need to recover all the knowledge and skills that have been lost over three stagnant decades in a highly technical field," he conceded.
McCain did not say what steps, if any, he would propose to simplify the permitting process for nuclear plants. Nor did he say how he would dispose of the waste, other than to say "we will need to solve complex problems of moving and storing materials that will always need safeguarding."
Shortly after he spoke, a participant in a campaign-organized round-table discussion of energy, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones, said obtaining the necessary construction permits can take five years. "We should be able to cut that in half," added Jones, a former NATO commander who is now chief executive officer of the U.S. Chamber Institute for 21st Century Energy. He also is on the board of Chevron.
Jones flew to Missouri aboard the campaign's chartered jet although, ironically, Democrats recently disclosed that his name has figured in Obama campaign discussions of potential Democratic vice presidential running mates.
McCain's motorcade drove by a few dozen sign-carrying demonstrators protesting the Iraq War. One audience member interrupted his remarks by standing and shouting that the Arizona senator had taken millions from the oil industry.
A dramatic spike in worldwide oil prices has pushed the cost of gasoline to $4 a gallon and more, and made energy a domestic political issue in a way it has not been since the days of the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s.
On Tuesday, McCain delivered a speech in Texas in which he made the case for a nationwide effort to reduce dependence on foreign oil, including additional drilling in U.S. coastal waters, and said he would begin laying out specific proposals in the coming days.
With his appearance in Missouri, he began making good on that promise.
The Republican presidential contender said Missouri gets about 85 percent of its electricity from coal, an abundant natural resource in the U.S.
"Perhaps no advancement in energy technology could mean more to America than the clean burning of coal and the capture and storage of carbon emissions," he said.
With the $2 billion in federal funds, he said, "We will build the demonstration plants, refine the techniques and equipment, and make clean coal a reality. This single achievement will open vast amounts of our oldest and most abundant resource. And it will deliver not only electricity but jobs to some of the areas hardest hit by our economic troubles."
It was the second straight day McCain has criticized Obama, the Illinois senator who will collect the Democratic presidential nomination this summer, a few days before McCain lays claim to the GOP nomination.
Obama has said McCain's support for additional offshore oil drilling is evidence that he would effectively give the country another term of the Bush presidency.
"I guess the senator has changed his position since voting for the 2005 Bush energy bill - a grab-bag of corporate handouts that I opposed," McCain said. "Come to think of it, that energy bill was the only time we've ever seen Senator Obama vote in favor of any tax break - and it was a tax break for the oil companies."
McCain opposed the 2005 measure and said at the time it was larded with billions in unnecessary tax breaks for the oil industry.
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See all 72 CommentsThat''s pretty amazing. The comments supposedly took place at an Operation Push conference in 2004. Katrina happened in 2005. LOL - you are pathetic
If you insist on posting something that is NOT the subject of the article , at least get your facts right, instead of showing the world what an IDIOT you are!
The quote from Obama''s 1/2 brother is "..if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background."
He said "Muslim background", not that Obama is or was a Muslim! His father was a Muslim, so he has a Muslim background! It would be like saying McCain would be a good president for African Americans , despite his slave-owner background! That doesn''t mean McCain ever owned slaves, but one of his ancestors owned slaves in Mississippi!
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what a stinking LIAR,,,
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hahaha
what a stinking LIAR,,,
HELL HIS KENYAN FAMILY AND TRIBE ARE FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAMIST JIHADISTS,,,
will hussein stop his radical muslim luo tribe relatives from slaughtering non-muslims???
apparently not,,,
U.S. Troops to African "hotspot"?
Obama Jr. Says ''''Not Yet''''
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan08/obama_lou%20tribe.htm
Just one day before the Jan. 3, 2008 Iowa caucus, Sen. Barack Hussein Obama Jr. (D-Ill.), who is aiming to be America''''''''s first African-American president, found himself taping a message from Iowa to Kenya for broadcast on the Voice of America.
Kenya, the homeland Obama Jr''''s family''''s Luo tribe, burst into post-election violence after Raila Odinga, a fiery Luo tribe opposition leader and Kenya presidential candidate, alleged the Dec. 27 voting that re-elected President Mwai Kibaki of the Kikuyu tribe was rigged
More than 360 people were killed and over 250,000 displaced provoking a humanitarian crisis in a country previously considered a stable pillar in east Africa.
HELL HIS KENYAN FAMILY AND TRIBE ARE FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAMIST JIHADISTS,,,
Obama''s Cousin Charged With Ethnic Cleansing
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/01/great-obamas-cousin-charged-with-ethnic.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7192958.stm
Obama''s relative linked to Ethnic Cleansing in Kenya
http://libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com/2008/02/obamas-relative-linked-to-ethnic.html
Signs in Kenya That Killings Were Planned
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957451/posts
Ten Obvious Reasons Why Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/Top-10-Reasons.htm
Kenya Muslim Violence Pictorial *Warning Graphic*
Africa, Kenya, Muslims%u2026nothing more needs to be said%u2026
http://patdollard.com/2008/01/kenya-muslim-violence-pictorial-warning-graphic/
The Kenyan jihad
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/433766/the-kenyan-jihad.thtml
nothing new,,, more radical muslims ethnically cleansing non-muslims
19 Burned to Death in Violence in Kenya
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960644/posts
HELL HIS KENYAN FAMILY AND TRIBE ARE FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAMIST JIHADISTS,,,
Obama Sides With Radical Islamists
The magnitude of difference between the two candidates running in our presidential election could not be more stark! After reading the statements of both Obama and McCain regarding the horrible Supreme Court 5-4 decision to allow Gitmo detainees the right to be tried in civilian courts, we can clearly see what a flawed, unfortunate, and terrible direction Obama would take this country if [God forbid!!]elected in November.
Obama''s statement:
Barack Obama statement on the Supreme Court''s 5-4 decision today extending civilian legal protections to terrorist suspects held in Guantanamo Bay:
Um...er...earth to Obama? Foreign terrorists caught in battle against our forces during war have never been eligible for "habeas corpus"! They are not covered by the Constitution of the United States of America. So...what "rule of law" are you referring to?
http://talkwisdom.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-sides-with-radical-islamists.html
remain unresolved are: 1) What do we do with the waste?, and, 2) How do we secure the spent fuel rods from terrorists?
Regarding clean coal, there''s no such thing as clean coal. Cleaner coal is better than dirtier coal and we can''t entirely do away with coal, but it''s not where the crux of our energy investment needs to be focused.
It''s been estimated that 67% of all home energy needs in this country could be supplied by the available wind power in the plains states alone.
We would need to invest heavily to fully tap into it(loans, tax credits, direct government grants,etc.) and also invest along the coasts and Congress would need to stop talking and act on deregulation so that energy could be wheeled to where it was needed.
Europe is already demonstrating what wind power can do.
We need a comprehensive energy plan which utilizes all of these things but which accounts for renewability, air cleanliness, and environmemntal protection so that we don''t shift the burden one problem onto another.
That''s what McCain doesn''t get with this plan.
Malik Obama confirms his half-brother Barack grew up a Muslim
Apparently the Obamas of Kenya have no doubt -- contrary to the claims of the Obama campaign, that the presidential candidate was raised a Moslem. They take that as a given.
"Barack Obama''''s half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya."
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12918.htm
http://www.anobamanation.net/2008/06/obamas-brother-confirms-barack-grew-up.html
"Once again, the white man keeps us down. What''s up with whitey? Why''d he attack Iraq? Why''d he let Katrina happen? Why''d he leave millions of children behind? This is the legacy the white man gives us."
She supposedly says "whitey," "why''d he," and "white man."
" White greed runs a world in need "
google it, he said it
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I am not surprised, he was brain washed at the Trinity United Church of Hate. We will here more racist comments from Obama. Remember the Typical White People Comment. Obama campaign disinvites Muslims to his Campaign, is he trying to tell us he doesnt like Muslim.
In short, Obama saw no problem being lobbied in the past by someone who openly promotes terrorism and discrimination against Jewish-Americans.
Al Awda is commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe of the creation of Israel) this coming May thanks to the willingness of the management of Hilton Hotels to overlook anti-Semitism in its facilities to make a buck. A new petition is in the works to get Hilton to stop this. Al Awda%u2019s scheduled guest of honor will be a PFLP terrorist member named Khalida Jarrar, and their website recently gave an homage to the late PFLP founder George Habash. Al Awda wants convicted Islamic Jihad financier/terrorist Sami al Arian released, a murderer of over 100 people abroad, some of them Americans, from terrorist attacks.
" White greed runs a world in need "
google it, he said it
What if any evidence do you have that we gave any nuclear assistance to Saudi Arabia? or do you just soak up the democrap talking points to make yourself look good.
Go back to your loom
WHY in the WORLD would SAUDI "need" NUKE TECHNOLOGY??
OH, I get it all those PRO NUKE people like on this site have REASSURED GWB that it''s as SAFE as MOTHER''S MILK.
They might be Right- if she was DOWNWIND at Chernobyl!
Gotta WONDER WHY a country floating on a sea of OIL and the BEST SOLAR and WIND possibilities in the WORLD!
Bet that TICKS OFF Israel - they''re the ONLY ones with NUKES in that area for NOW.
Will George''s PROMISE to GIVE the SAUDIS NUKE TECHNOLOGY concern the Israelis?
MAYBE that''s why they''re AVOIDING the US in their dealings with their neighbors now.
Bet they NOW think of the US as "the crazy uncle" that you DON''T want to sit next to at the reunion.
There are several "USE IT OR LOSE IT" bills being proposed so BIG OIL cannot LOCK UP and GREEDILY HOARD public land leases they NOW sit on to the tune of 68 MILLION acres!!!
I''m sure some of the "little guys" would be GLAD for the opportunity to "USE" those LOCKED UP leases being HOARDED by BIG OIL!!!!
This "offshore drilling need" proposal by the NEOCONS is a SCAM to do the SAME THING BIG OIL DID with the ELECTRIC CAR!!!
They TAKE CONTROL over ALL THE POSSIBILITIES and then SUPPRESS THEM to INCREASE THEIR PROFIT!!!
MONOPOLY CONTROL of our ENERGY by a HANDFUL of MULTINATIONALS is BAD for EVERYONE BUT those MULTINATIONALS!
Bring on our ENTREPRENEURS!!!
Americans ARE resourceful when NOT STOPPED by BIG MONEY controlling BIG GOVERNMENT!!
Give MA and PA business a CHANCE - they can work MIRACLES not only in Conventional ways but especially in ALTERNATIVES!!
Ariz. Senator Wants More Reactors Built,
Of course he does. His overlords tell him they could make a killing on them
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McSame will be dead long before any nuclear waste worries can arise from these that he advocates be built.
The best of both world for McSame!
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Someone disagrees with your point of view and all you can do is belittle and make false accusations by name calling. Talk about being a FASCIST. MCWheelie is by far the biggest hypocrite on this board and the only action he has is to blab about Nazis, etc. How pathetic - again, he is just upset because he lost his job and is dying with no friends or family to console him as he fades away into dust.
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