McCain on The Lexington Project

Week 5, Item 8
By, Stacy Jelke

In class we spoke briefly on The Lexington Project and McCain's support of it. I decided I needed to know a bit more about it, along with possibly most of the class in order to better judge or support it. Here is what I found:

I love this quote from the McCain website mostly because it is understandable and can be supported by both Democratic and Republican parties together.
"Our nation's future security and prosperity depends on the next President making the hard choices that will break our nation's strategic dependence on foreign sources of energy and will ensure our economic prosperity by meeting tomorrow's demands for a clean portfolio."

Senator McCain has imposed a plan called the Lexington Project; by following this plan he has hopes (and dont say hope is not enough you Obama supporters :) for strategic independence by 2025. "Together, we will break the power of OPEC over the United States. And never again will we leave our vital interests at the mercy of any foreign power."

How will we achieve independence by 2025!? Here's what McCain implies, " by authorizing new production, building nuclear plants, perfecting clean coal, improving our electricity grid, and supporting all the new technologies that one day will put the age of fossil fuels behind us. Much will be asked of industry as well, as automakers and others adapt to this great turn toward new sources of power. And a great deal will depend on each one of us, as we learn to make smarter use of energy, and also to draw on the best ideas of both parties, and work together for the common good."

As presented in class, this topic of global warming and alternative fuels isn't a rightist or leftist idea. This topic is one that is real, it was brought on mostly by the American people and our way of life. Unlike many Republicans McCain is very persistent in his ideas about global warming, he is ready to handle it, and ready to make American cleaner while being less dependent on foreign sources.

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/1b708e23-5496-42a3-8771-aec271bf823e.htm