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A Rig Deal Visiting oil rig, McCain calls again for more offshore drilling		20 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 6:56 AM on 20 Aug 2008 Sen. John McCain visited an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana Tuesday, reiterating his call for more offshore drilling and bashing Barack Obama for not sharing his enthusiasm. "Sen. Obama opposes new drilling," said McCain, who himself opposed new offshore drilling until this summer. Actually, to the chagrin of enviros, Obama said recently that he'd consider voting for offshore ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

My kingdom for a so-called expert	David Roberts	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Sam Stein goes looking for an energy expert who will endorse John McCain's contention that oil drilling will provide short-term price relief. You can guess the rest.
Topics: energy, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Stormy waters Offshore drilling likely to raise some voter ire in Florida	Kate Sheppard	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain's call this week for an end to the moratorium on offshore drilling isn't faring well with environmentalists across the country. In one key state, however, it might really come back to bite him come November. Florida -- yes, land of dangling chads and nearly-won elections -- may well prove to be the place where McCain's call for drilling cost him in the general election. 'I think that he has made a serious miscalculation,' Holly Binns, field director fo ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Why more drilling is not the answer Conservative arguments to the contrary are intellectually bankrupt	Michael Moynihan	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the NDN blog. Of the various false solutions being proposed to the current oil shock perhaps none is more disingenous than the idea that it can be solved by drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and along the Outer Continental Shelf. This is the idea that the right wing media, recently John McCain, and now President Bush have been pushing as a cure-all for soaring oil prices. Since many Democrats oppose this drilling, the next false logica ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Oil drilling = oil spilling How greens and Democrats can win the energy debate	Glenn Hurowitz	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
If the pro-environment Republican wasn't already dead, I think this week killed him. John McCain, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, President Bush, and many others threw overboard one of the last policy planks Republicans (at least in coastal states) used to show that they're pro-environment too by calling for a massive offshore drilling program. As chronicled in this excellent article by Politico's Charles Mathesian and David Mark, it's a politically risky move for Rep ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

No luv from Democratic guvs McCain's offshore drilling plan irks coastal state governors	Kate Sheppard	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The Obama campaign hosted a press conference this afternoon with Democratic governors to highlight opposition to John McCain's call to end the moratorium on offshore drilling. The governors expressed uniform distaste with the proposal, and skepticism that voters in their states would approve of drilling off their coasts. 'Our economy is driven by tourism and use of the shore,' said Jon Corzine, governor of New Jersey. 'I think we would have a hard time getting p ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Man in the Middle McCain calls for offshore drilling, renewables, and conservation in energy speech		17 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 9:27 PM on 17 Jun 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain tried to pack something for everyone into a big energy speech yesterday, saying the U.S. needs more conservation and renewables as well as more oil drilling, oil refineries, "clean-burning coal," and nuclear power plants. He called for ending a federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling, but reiterated his ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Texas hold 'em McCain calling for offshore drilling, renewables, and conservation in energy speech	Kate Sheppard	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain. John McCain will give a big speech on energy policy this afternoon to a group of oil executives in Houston, Texas. According to his prepared remarks, his address will highlight the need to forge a path to energy independence, calling for expanded domestic oil and gas drilling as well as a move toward renewable energy sources and conservation. 'The next president must be willing to break with the energy policies not just of the current adminis ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Mixed messages McCain releases new climate ad ahead of speech calling for more drilling	Kate Sheppard	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain unveiled a new climate-change ad today -- hours before he's scheduled to give an energy speech in Texas that will call for building more oil refineries and lifting a federal ban on offshore oil and gas drilling. 'John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming, five years ago,' says the ad. 'Today, he has a realistic plan that will curb greenhouse-gas emissions. A plan that will help grow our economy and protect our envi ...
Topics: climate, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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