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So, honest, but somewhat confused former fighter jock and presidential wanna-be, John McCain wants America to be energy independent by 2025.

A bold step.

However, before going further, let’s go over his most recent suggestions for relief from high gas prices: off-shore drilling and $300 million for a battery. Neither a particularly good or original idea, but at least one idea better than his new BFF, Dubya.

However, after a few days of pimping these half-assed plans he admitted to one and all that neither would have an immediate impact on gas prices, but we’d all feel better because of the “psychological” impact of such forward thinking.

I feel better already.

And now to the jewel in the McCain energy plan crown – energy independence by 2025.

History – you know, that thing that’s going to be quite unkind to George Bush and friends – can give us a bit of insight into this idea.

Back in the late ‘70’s Jimmy Carter presided over the country during our first big oil trouble. Gas lines, rising prices, enraged public; all the stuff Santayana said would happen again because we didn’t learn from it the first time. As we muddled through Carter, (a good man in a job way over his head), proposed energy independence by the year 2000. He had extensive plans for solar and renewable energy sources, as well as conservation.

When Ronald Regan and the “Republican Revolution” found it’s way into power, they gutted the Carter energy plan, and every other idea about conserving or using something other than oil. Under Bush it’s just gotten worse, and every day McCain sounds more like Bush, except when it comes to energy where he sounds more like Carter.

So a vote for McCain is a vote for Carter, except McCain said in response to Obama saying a vote for McCain is a vote for four more years of Bush, that a vote for Obama is a vote for four more years of the Carter, except McCain wants what Carter wanted twenty years after Carter wanted it, but McCain wants us to think Obama is Carter…I’m confused.

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