Comments on: Candidates agree on clean tech, differ on details

The picture on energy policy is getting a bit more clear at two events this week: Obama and McCain's town hall debate and another between their energy advisers at MIT.

[Manhattan2]

October 8, 2008 The work has already been done, the plan is already in place. The next President, no matter who it may be, will have to look to the Manhattan2 Project for the solutions to our energy crisis. When Barack Obama and John McCain are ready to start listening and stop debating the same issues without saying anything new, let us know. [e-mail] Mitch Govansky

[cohaver]

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/09/obamas_acorn_fr.html

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[kanttouchthis]

When will the American people wake up and realize that the President of the United States is no more than a puppet hanging on the strings of corporate american finacial dictators, who have the money power to change every entity of life outside of one's own intellectual theologies. Things will continue to be bad and get even worse in this country. (history dictats that) So when you all get finised debating who should be president, remember this, "he's employed and controlled by a few big money dictators who dont give a hoot about you and I.

[jameslemay_dotmac]

The government should use its powers - the bully pulpit, tax cuts - to encourage necessary change in our energy policy. That means asking people to conserve, and tax breaks for purchasers of renewable energy systems and vehicles.

It would probably also help to reduce the mountains of regulations and red tape that bar entry for new electric vehicle companies.

The major problems facing us today (Iraq, Iran, global warming) are all related to oil, and could be solved by breaking our addiction. Not only that, but getting over our addiction is an economic opportunity for America. The oil won't last anyway. The next president ought to make an oil-free future his or her top priority. Present it as this generation's Apollo program, or as a national security imperative... who cares, just get us moving in the intelligent direction. It will likely solve many seemingly unrelated problems at a stroke.

Oil companies will tend to want to maintain the status quo with hydrogen cars - which require the same expensive infrastructure and maintenance that internal combustion engines do. I think they are stalling for time, and I hope that we will embrace electric plug-ins with either fuel cells, onboard generators, or replaceable batteries. Of course, the market will decide, but the little guy with the big idea needs a hand against the entrenched status quo. That's where our next leader can help.

By the way, the Google guys have an interesting energy plan.
http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/15x31uzlqeo5n/1#

[meh130]

Nuclear power has been, is, and will continue to be for the next 50-100 years, the answer to the question, what is the next source of energy after fossil fuels.
The science is settled. The debate is over.
Go to this link, and watch the video:
http://www.terrestrialenergy.org/

[Seaspray0]

It takes more than a president committed to alternative energy, it takes a committed congress and it takes "you the public" putting pressure on government to act. Wind, solar, nuclear, biomass, clean coal... we must put it into action now; ALL of it. We need to generate 100% of the electrical needs of this country without oil in 10 years and twice that amount within 20.