While all of the presidential and vice presidential candidates this election season recognize the pressing need for new energy, every individual has different ideas on how it should be done. Some, like John McCain, support research for biofuels, renewable energy, nuclear energy, while others are more selective of possible energy sources, such as Cynthia McKinney’s reluctance to use nuclear energy. While I was attemtping to be partial as a reporter, I personally agree with Barack Obama’s energy plan, which includes an auctioning of the cap and trade pollution credits that would be used by large corporations. However, I wonder how long is the long-term when it comes to research on alternate energy sources. How many more decades will our country be dependent on oil, foreign or off-shore?
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Aside from Obama’s auctioning idea, I’d say he is a tad optimistic. He plans to get everything done by like 2015 or something. I suppose research is implied in his plan. But nonetheless, I have my doubts that we can fulfill his plans according to his time table.
I’m not supporting either candidate (unless I’m playing the role of McCain) but his energy plan seems a bit more realistic. He has a heavy emphasis on research, including monetary incentives to develop and market alternative energy. He’s a firm supporter of nuclear energy. There seems to be nothing stopping the construction of nuclear plants except those pro-environment or whatever-those-people-are activists against the Yucca Storage site. The senate okayed that site in 2005, saying it was secure enough environmentally to store nuclear wastes.
In this sense, McCain’s plan is more feasible
Well Stephan, candidates have to show voters a time frame in which the candidate still has a chance to be in office. And I agree with you because I do not believe that he will able to fulfill his plan in 2015. But nonetheless he has given us a glimpse of the future, as far as it may be.
Norma, I believe that we just have to wait and see, and like the candidates say all the time, its for the future. And Obama is not doing anything rash right now, like drilling, but rather looking at alternate energy as our solution to the future.
PS: Stephan, a lot of nuclear facilities say that they are safe, but have you seen what happens? We will have a Chernobyl on our hands if we built these plants. Nuclear energy might be an option in helping us to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil but it is not our safest option. Let us exhaust our options in energies that won’t give us cancer and then we can talk.
Currently, its either oil or nuclear. And since u called drilling “rash”, you clearly support neither. Unfortunately, we have no economically viable alternatives (not to my knowledge), particularly with our renewable energy (ie. solar is way too inefficient and expensive to market). As such, our options are quite limited.
PS: Don’t take this personally. I’m all for solar energy. Research is actually being done right now to make solar cells cheaper and more efficient. Of course, no one knows how long it will take before these cells go on the market.
PSS: It’s Stephen (not Stephan) >.0