One of the biggest factors to influence the November election will be energy policy. Which of the presidential candidates has the best energy policy?

I realize we tend to support our guy first, and then look for reasons to do so. To avoid this as much as possible please tell us the specific details of the policy you like the best. I also realize energy policy isn't the only factor you might consider in choosing you will support. I understand its possible to think the candidate you plan to vote against has the better energy policy.

With the exception of McCain & Obama, none of the other candidates stand a ghost of a chance, so talking about their energy policy is pointless.

I don't find McCain or Obama's energy policy satisfactory. Neither one of them is suggesting something we can do right now, pass immediate legislation to regulate the commodities market. Its the oil speculators driving up the price, there's no shortage. If there were a shortage, we'd be in long lines waiting to fill our tanks, like we did in the 70's with the oil embargo. This simply is'nt the case.

There are other things that can be done, like telling the refiners to produce only 87 octane. No more mid-grade, no more high test, nobody's buying it anyway.

To be honest with you, I'd like to see them all go, Republicans & Democrats alike. A new party, a third party, (or more for that matter) with a grass roots view, a deep abiding respect for the national interest.

they're really both bare but Obama's seems rather exclusive towards having all avenues open where as McCain is fine with whatever we can do as long as it produces energy without bancrupting us.

I really like McCain's $300 million research prize. Its going to be real hard for some oil company to buy out the patent, stick it in a file cabinet and claim "there needs to be more research" so they can drill ANWR and sell the so called "our own oil" to China after the president just handed the inventors a check for $300 million bucks at a Rose Garden ceremony. Plus, there will be hundreds of research teams at universities all over America working to win that cash, and have probably already started. Even many of those who do not win will have viable designs and would likely help on the competition front.

Obama's focus IMHO is too much on ethanol, which I think is a waste of time altogether and counter productive but I understand the corn belt is his home base. If we're gonna start driving EVs we need to also concurrently build up the power grid and I think that means nuclear power and McCain is a bigger nuke proponent.

Kirk Sorensen has the best energy policy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUeBSoEnRk

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