In His Big Speech, McCain's 10 Energy Lies Top Palin's 4 Energy Lies

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In His Big Speech, McCain's 10 Energy Lies Top Palin's 4 Energy Lies
Joseph Romm

From McCain's prepared text we see the Arizona Senator easily top Palin's lies (see "In her big speech, Palin repeats the GOP's big energy lie -- plus three other energy lies, too"):


My fellow Americans, when I'm President, we're going to embark on the most ambitious national project in decades. We are going to stop sending $700 billion a year to countries that don't like us very much.

LIE #1: McCain has no plan to reduce oil imports -- indeed, throughout his career he has explicitly rejected every plan that might reduce oil imports substantially, including fuel economy standards, biofuels, and renewables. Heck, he even rejected the plan offered by billionaire conservative oilman T. Boone Pickens to aggressively deploy clean energy and alternative fuels over the next ten years (see The real, Luddite McCain: "The truly clean technologies don't work").

We will attack the problem on every front.

LIE #2: This is, of course, the GOP's Big Energy Lie, widely debunked (see "The Big Energy Lie -- Blog round-up").


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