You’ve heard of ‘polluters pay’? So has McCain.
Polluters pay McCain, that is, when he flip flops.
“Industry Gushed Money After Reversal on Drilling” blares the Washington Post headline today:
Campaign contributions from oil industry executives to Sen. John McCain rose dramatically in the last half of June, after the senator from Arizona made a high-profile split with environmentalists and reversed his opposition to the federal ban on offshore drilling.
Oil and gas industry executives and employees donated $1.1 million to McCain last month — three-quarters of which came after his June 16 speech calling for an end to the ban — compared with $116,000 in March, $283,000 in April and $208,000 in May.
The above graph comes courtesy of “John McCain, Big Oil’s Million-Dollar Maverick” a Wonk Room piece by Daniel J. Weiss, a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Weiss notes that on July 22 McCain said,
My friends, we have to drill off shore. We have to do it. It’s out there and we can do it. And we can do that. The oil executives say within a couple of years we could be seeing results from it. So why not do it?
McCain now takes his policy guidance from oil executives. Hmm. Who else in the Republican Party are oil executives? Sounds like a third term of oil-exectutive-friendly policies.
In any case, as I have noted many times, the analysis from the Bush administration’s own energy experts do not support the outrageous lies of the oil executives here. We’d be lucky to see a significant amount of oil in 10 years from ending a moratorium on coastal drilling — and we’d never an impact on gasoline prices (see “The cruel offshore-drilling hoax.”)
As oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens says, “this is one emergency we can’t drill our way out of.”
The bottom line: Polluters pay McCain to flip-flop his position and embrace Big Oil along with all of its pollution.
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July 27th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
disturbing article in the uk telegraph….
Nasa is out of line on global warming
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ opinion/ main.jhtml?xml=/ opinion/ 2008/ 07/ 27/ do2708.xml
July 27th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Disturbing in that they let a denier write a regular column.
“Steve McIntyre, the computer analyst who earlier exposed the notorious ‘hockeystick’ graph that was shamelessly exploited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore. (This used a flawed computer model to suppress evidence that the world was hotter in the Middle Ages than today.)”
Anybody who thanks that the hockey stick graph was “exposed” is a card-carrying denier, and ou can safely ignore everything they say. The rest of us try to stick with analysis that is vindicated by the most prestigious group of scientists in the country.
July 27th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I just love this quote from the article:
“But in the past year a number of expert US scientists have been conducting a public investigation, through scientific blogs”
Yup, that is the way to do science–through a blog.
The small error that was found in Hansen’s data by Steven McIntyre of ClimateAudit had an insignificant effect on the overall global temperature data–unlike the error made by Spencer & Christy which changed their conclusions completely.
July 30th, 2008 at 4:53 am
I really don’t like McCain, but it the special interests will always throw money after the people that supports their causes.
It would seem to have much worse if they had contributed BEFORE his speech. That they do so AFTERWARDS is understandable.
P.S. I’m also against drilling, but fair is fair.