he does. He’s for nuclear power. He wants to move the world away from oil.
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/13bc1d97-4ca5-49dd-9805-1297872571ed.htm
Al Qaeda must revel in the irony that America is effectively helping to fund both sides of the war they caused. As we sacrifice blood and treasure, some of our gas dollars flow to the fanatics who build the bombs, hatch the plots, and carry out attacks on our soldiers and citizens. Iran made over $45 billion from oil sales in 2005, and it is the number one state sponsor of terrorism.
The transfer of American wealth to the Middle East helps sustain the conditions on which terrorists prey. Some of the most oil-rich nations are the most stagnant societies on earth. As long as petro-dollars flow freely to them those regimes have little incentive to open their politics and economies so that all their people may benefit from their countries’ natural wealth. The Middle East’s example is spreading to our own hemisphere. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is using his country’s oil revenues to establish a dictatorship, bully his neighbors and succeed Castro as Latin America’s leading antagonist of the United States. The politics of oil impede the global progress of our values, and restrains governments from acting on the most basic impulses of human decency. There is only one reason China has opposed sanctions to pressure Sudan to stop the killing in Darfur: China needs Sudan’s oil.
That policy on his website is a good one, for the most part. So where is the McCain - (Democrat’s name) Energy Reform bill?
It doesn’t exist. And the reason it doesn’t exist is that McCain does not really understand the engineering and economic issues involved. By his own admission he doesn’t understand the economics; and by his support of the global warming agenda we can confidently infer that he’s ignorant on the engineering side as well.
Moreover, given his record, there is no reason to assume that if he did put his priorities in proper order, than any solution he would advocate would make anything any better. So far, the solutions to which his name are attached are awful: McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, etc. The longer the list of his policies one inspects, the fewer differences one finds between him and Hillary Clinton. Perhaps the prime distinguishing feature is that McCain gets along better with Democrats than the Clintons do, but that’s not a real big selling point for me.