No pun intended. Meanwhile, Michael Gerson in a recent column further explicated good, solid principles for conservatives to follow on energy policy; and it's good for the McCain campaign that they're pursuing them:
"...for McCain the energy issue has been a gift. There is perhaps no other topic in American politics today on which the public is angry, seeks action and agrees strongly with Republicans. McCain's approach is to do it all: drilling, nuclear, alternatives and conservation. Obama's approach has been reactive and irrelevant. What would his redistributed windfall profits tax do to produce energy or reduce the need for it? And Obama is hamstrung by a coalition that insists we will not drill our way out of this problem -- which is true but beside the point. No single approach will solve the problem in the short or medium term. And a nation in an energy crisis has every justification to extract its oil and natural gas while it pursues alternatives to oil and natural gas."
Exactly. And what's also interesting is that this shows that conservatives ARE pragmatic, flexible, adaptable, willing to think through flexible solutions to a crisis. It's amazing that Obama and many liberals are being so rigid in their opposition to common sense energy proposals.
