Friedman Destroys McCain on Energy

Thomas Friedman destroys Sen. McCain's reputation as a reformer on energy and says he's a representative of Big Oil.

FRIEDMAN: Oh, about 1% to global demand, or global resources if we find anything. I tried to imagine if there were Russian, Saudi, and Iranian observer at that convention listening to them say "Drill, baby, drill" what would they have been doing? They would have been up their high fiving each other. They would have been leading that chant, because that means you, American, you're going to be focused on 19th century oil, rather than giving birth to a 20th century which could threaten us, renewable energy.

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[bilhelm]

pwnage, McCain is a fossil fuel.. BS.

[dallasmsl]

GM has spent MILLIONS revamping the all new Camaro! It's bigger, faster, and more gas guzzling than the older one. And now GM wants MORE OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS! Tell GM where to go!

[truevoice08]

Two shills of the corporate State battling each other. What a thrill!

Right wing socialism or Left wing socialism?

War on Terror or Environmental Alarmism?

Take your pick, slaves!

[Agent1W]

I heard that this Friedfag wants a new tax on gasoline, keeping it at $4...

[chrislebensmother]

Agreed, but can we really expect inefficient, overweight GM to produce an affordable Electric car? Wasn't most of the development budget actually funded by Tax breaks?

All electric cars have one fault that you need to recharge the battery. Why haven't Drop In/Drop Out batteries been available at Gas Stations? You wouldn't expect to wait for gasoline Refraction before you could fill up would you? Its made difficult on PURPOSE so you dont buy them. We should get Tax Rebate for going electric.

[chrislebensmother]

If you Tax carbon you will never be able to eliminate it. Taxing is the most effective way to ensure Governments depend on the tax dollars for their budgets and keeps otherwise harmful products like tobacco, alcohol (I like to drink but booze is the root of 90% of social problems compounded by low opportunities and family support) gasoline legal. You should get a tax refund for buying a wind turbine, a heat pump & solar panels. Dont buy a new car, buy a micro generation system.

[sourceinquirerSTAR]

the resolution of designing and developing new renewable green technologies to replace our fossil fuel resources makes drilling for more oil a complete nonsense."Drill Baby Drill" is totally absurd nowadays.

[dallasmsl]

I absolutely agree with you!

[dallasmsl]

The Chevy Volt does not exist. It is still a DREAM on the Chevy drawing boards. They have built pretty-shiney models but do not yet have the guts for it because GM sold the battery to Chevron 10 years ago. So, I don't know what I'm talking about? Yeah, you are just curious, aren't you? And as far as your other very lame excuses for the EV1 not being put into production, any new car (and I mean ANY) will not make a profit until it is taken from experimentation and into production.

[juscurious]

If GM killed the electric car, then why didn't Toyota, Honda, Ford, etc pick up on it and make an all electric? I'll answer the question. The EV1 was an all electric 2 seater that would not pass crash tests. They leased about 1100 cars as an experimental venture. In order to make a profit, they would have needed to charge about $80,000 per car. In the mid 1990's very few people would have paid that kind of money for this type of vehicle. The battery technology was there in the 1990's.