In a new ad running in New Hampshire, Barack Obama says “we can’t just tell people what they want to hear, we need to tell them what they need to hear.” And what do we need to hear? America is addicted to foreign oil and the polar icecaps are melting. Have a nice day.
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Senator Barack Obama unveiled his comprehensive energy plan in a speech yesterday in Portsmouth, NH. After taking a few nuanced swipes at Hillary Clinton, Obama said that he’s the only candidate who can take on the “powerful interests.” His recommendations include raising fuel standards, promoting biofuels, developing renewable sources of energy, eliminating tax breaks for oil companies and funding research to develop a 500 mpg car.
Sound Bite: “Being President of the United States isn’t about doing what’s easy. It’s about doing what’s hard.”
The Edwards campaign has so far put up 22 videos from his tour of Iowa, neatly cutting together stump speeches on his stands on health care and paying for it, energy, labor, economic inequality, globalization, and more. Here he is stumping on energy (capping carbon emissions but not opening more nuclear power plants or supporting liquid coal or other new carbon-based fuels)
He also interacts with the folks of Iowa. Here’s Dean Pro, who has been married to Mother for “62 or 63 years:”
Sound bite: “That don’t look like no $70 haircut.”
And here’s young Robert, who used spray paint to good end, making a campaign sign:
Bill Richardson buys TV to advertise his web site and his message about energy there.
I think that’s an interesting moment in campaign marketing. Thirty seconds, he says, isn’t long enough to list all his plans and accomplishments and so he uses TV to drive to the web.
Governor Bill Richardson claims to have the most aggressive energy plan of any candidate. But “government can only go so far,” he says, ”an energy revolution must start with citizens.” And so he’s asking viewers to submit videos that illustrate new ideas about energy conservation and the use of alternative fuels. He and his staff will review the videos and “whoever has the best or most original idea, I’ll come visit.” Nicely done.
In Senator Barack Obama’s recent address to the Detroit Economic Club, he says a “clean secure energy future” is the country’s “next great task.” And “if we’re going to make significant progress, we’re going to have to start with our cars.”
Hillary Clinton has released her second “conversation” video. This “HillCast” details the candidate’s energy policy.
Clinton’s plan:
- undertake an “Apollo-like effort to make clean and alternative energy the energy of America”
- create a strategic energy fund that will invest in clean energy solutions
- mandate that oil companies invest in alternative energy or else pay a portion of their “excess profits” into the strategic fund
- repeal subsidies to oil companies
- provide incentives and grants to the clean coal and ethanol industries, as well as to other providers and consumers of clean and renewable energy.
Oh yes, the plan would also create millions of jobs, cost taxpayers nothing and help combat global warming.
