1. There is a law, I think, called the First Law of Thermodynamics, or the Law of Energy Conservation.

Where do you think you get the electricity to power your hybrids? This country generates 80% of electricity by burning coals and natural gas. The empty headed phony wants you to convert the "energy" of one form, polluting your clean air, at 10% efficiency, to another form of energy, which is then used to power another form of energy at 30% efficiency.

Does he any any clue? Does his advisers have any clue? Daschle? He probably only knows how to grow corns.

2. 10% of energy, even achieved, provides no solution to your energy need, aside from his lack of substance in details.

It takes only 3 cycles to destroy your soil if you take all organic materials out of the field to produce ethanol. Then, you will rely on ammonia and phosphate fertilizers to grow corns.

Did not this country just spent 60 years to try to clean up the rivers and lakes?

3. Zero-bama needs to take the lead. Use no more than 1 SUV when he goes every where to air his pollutions.

The Short of Obama's plan is he was dropping in the POLLS so he wants it BOTH WAYS in Off Shore Drilling.

The Long of Obama's plan is he has no real plan

Democrats along with Obama taking a vacation and ignoring pleas by the Republicans to come back to work to try to solve the Energy Crisis

Obama also blasted McCain for being in the pocket of big oil, and noted McCain got $1 million from oil company executives after he introduced his plan to drill off-shore.
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Sounds a little devil accusing a bigger devil. $1M for McCain, $0.5M for 0bama.

Poor cry baby. Why don't they give you more since you voted for giving them more tax credits, but they give the big devil more even he voted against giving them tax credits.

Four years, 10 percent of energy from renewable sources.

That's an ambitious goal. Not quite as sweeping as what the Germans are doing, but a more compressed schedule.

It will be interesting to see if analysts (those not associated with either campaign) think we can do it.

heard me: why should they rush back to work... after all this has been on the table for the 8 years or 23 years McCain and Bush have been in office and nothing has even been on the table tell the American people started yelling "Fowl" now it is an emergency. Give me a break.

It's pretty pathetic when Americans have to depend on the self financed ads of T. Boone Pickens for ideas about solving our dependence on foreign oil rather than our Democratic nominee.

One thing that can be done now is use of solar panels on buildings. In terms of residential, the chief problem is the upfront cost. I wonder if more folks would do it if there was a tax deduction for this.

There's also some really interesting technology developing that would both make the initial cost significantly less and increase energy efficiency. Right now, solar panels aren't very efficient. But someone is working on basically this paint-type stuff with a bunch of conductive fibers in it. Basically paint a roof and you have your collector.

Obama's so-called Plan consists of
asking Americans to inflate their tires,
maybe some off-shore drilling, and a political gimmick, releasing some of the Strategic Energy Reserve, and of course Wind, Solar etc which will take
a couple of decades to develop!
In other words he has No Plan!
He continues to exclude nuclear power,
however if he continues to slip in the polls as I believe he will, expect Obama
to Flip his position on Nuclear Power!
He has Morphed into Bill Clinton!
He doesn't flip-flop on issues he
"refines" his positions or "shifts"
his positions!
You know "it depends on what your
definition of the word is is"!
Just Say No to Obama! No You Can't!

Paul,

Facts need to be repeated since the phony keeps polluting the air.

BTW, by the time in four years, it's too late for you to realize the 10% renewable energy is purely thin air.

You need to have an urgency, a put-a-man-on-the-Moon-by-the-end-of-the-decade spirit and courage on long-term energy policy, which is the development of nuclear technology, the only clean and unlimited energy source in this Universe.

0bama? He only cares about deceiving as many as he could in the next 90 days.

Another thing that could be done is for homeowners' associations to foot the bill up front for solar panels, and then raise the HOA fees. The people in that association would pay higher fees, but also not pay electric bills again.

Obviously this type of plan would need a lot of details worked out. A home that doesn't get as much sun wouldn't want to pay the same increased fees.

Obama revealed he was out of touch with working americans when he indicated that $ 4/gallon gas prices didn't concern him and that we could all benefit from inflating our tires.

It made me think of that famous remark wrongly attributed to that tragic but other clueless personality, Marie Antoinette when told the peasants couldn't afford bread. "let them eat cake".

He's out of touch with average americans and that's why he'll lose in November.

Peter - I think Barr already has his running mate. The LP works differently, and the convention attendees pick the vice presidential candidate, I believe. I forget who it is, but I think I saw the name once.

fact check - for a typical home, an entire solar system costs about $20k. I'm not sure that's out of reach for the "typical" homeowner.

For some, sure. And with credit hard to come by, its tougher than it was. But maybe not out of reach for most.

As Obama is forced to articulate policy positions in-depth on major issue after major issue, on both domestic and foreign policies, the campaign- and media-driven image and narrative of Obama as the young, vibrant, visionary, messianic agent of social change increasingly suffers, replaced by the reality-driven image and narrative of an arrogant, ordinary, ambitious, inexperienced, silver-tongue politician.

One thing the Germans have done is to make the tax incentives so enticing, people are actually leasing use of other property so they can erect solar farms. And actual farms are converting some of their land to solar collectors.

They put these things on rails, so they can move them around the farm. While allowing a field to rest for a season during normal crop rotation, they can have the solar panels on top of it. Then next growing season, they'll move the panels to another part of the farm.

I saw a report about one farm that supplying all the electrical needs for a nearby town. This guy was making more from the solar panels than the rest of his produce combined. The downside - it did cost him a couple million to get started. But he's making a nice profit even after servicing the loan every month.

Paul -

One more time. Putting solar panels, using solar energy, wind energy aqua power are fine. These are not problems, really, and I do not disagree with you one bit as far as adopting it if you can afford it.

However, it is not, repeat NOT, a long term solution to (1) oil independence, nor (2) energy policy.

You are talking about a presidential candidate, who just laid out his LONG term energy policy, after such a long wait and hype. What all he could come up with?! 150 miles hybrid cars, 10% renewable energy, and 15% reduction of your consumption!

It's laughable, actually, painful, to hear it, for any pres. candidate from any party to come up something this pathetic.

Tell you what. Energy policy is to be the deciding factor for choosing the next president, as far as this voter is concerned.

I am so amazed by the press. They have finalized realized that there is no substance with Obama so they decide to report every little detail of his plan so that people can see it. However if you are not Barack Obama, the press prints what they want, usually a contrast between Obama and the other candidate.

Obama fatigue is all I have to say.

fact check - I'd say the possibility of every home getting its energy from solar panels would be a big part of energy independence.

It doesn't solve the transportation part of the mix, but it would be significant.

Obama sure changed his stance and position after meeting with Pelosi. Face the facts, Pelosi is the one controlling the Agenda! Every time Obama meets with her and her pathetic side kick Harry Reid, his position changes. He is a phony and a liar. He is just a front man for Pelosis socialist agenda. His lead in the polls is gone and he will be too after the November election.