PASS A GAS TAX HOLIDAY! Obama called it a gimmick, but by comparison to his recklessly stupid idea it is pure genius…

Personally, I favor leaving it alone. Let prices do what they will. We do need to drill, not because we need the supply, but the royalties will produce 2.6 trillion dollars in revenue over 10 years, and we need that money to pay down the debt, not that I expect politicians to have that kind of courage.

If we are going to pay $100 for oil, may as well be American Oil creating American jobs.

Obama seems to prefer that it be Venezuelan and Saudi Oil creating foreign jobs. It is absolute lunacy.

Despite the common knowledge that we need all sorts of new energy technologies, the world is not going to stop consuming oil any time soon. Let's stop bankrupting ourselves unnecessarily for something that won't make a dent in the climate issue, not even a scratch.

If I was considering voting for Obama, this made me think twice. This is taking shameless pandering to a dangerous level. The idea that he would put the national security at risk to win a few votes says about all I need to know about him. I am a centrist by nature, but this sort of pandering is reckless and irresponsible. Obama has no spine, and his ethics are suddenly in doubt.

The same crap happens here in Blount County. The GOP controls everything. They selectively change zoning laws to allow their pals to develop tracts of land without notifying the public of these changes until it's too late.

You don't need a primer on corruption in other state Republican Parties like Alaska and Ohio and Kentucky.

Yes, the NY Democratic Party is ossified to the extreme. The NJ Democratic Party is hopelessly corrupt. But the same is true for lots of Republican Parties as well.

You can count on some of the kids and politicians (D) appealing to them to remain stubborn.

I'm so smart. Ya'll remember me posting that this should be the GOP's response. I'm glad to see McCain jumping on it so quickly. It needs to get done. The ball needs to be in both courts. Just get it done for America and argue about other things.

It probably makes sense to look at energy policies beyond these stupid panders.

I think he's getting too cocky, or just getting bad advice from liberals out of touch with reality and with Americans. Windfall profits taxes? Demogrants for energy this winter (handouts with D stamped on them)? Insta-relief from misuse of our strategic reserve a la Gore in 2000? What's next, a wealth tax?

2) Yeah, it would be hard for McCain to honestly call Obama out for being short sighted when he wants to dump the gas tax for a couple months. But then McCain's been able to state on one day that Obama would sell out his country for power and then the next day claim his campaign hasn't gone negative at all. Just one more episode on the Straight Talk Express.

There are two cities that have been solely under democrat control for as long as I can remember – Washington D.C. and Detroit.

Both are basket cases due to their leadership (or more precisely, lack of leadership).

New York came out of the gutter when republicans took over. LA has had a mixture, which explains why it isn’t totally screwed up. Chicago has Midwestern democrats, a less virulent strain of the dreaded liberous idiotricus disease.

San Francisco is in a class by itself. When you mix liberalism with pure, undiluted crazy, you end up with a city that defies gravity. Like in math, multiplying two negatives and ending up with a positive.

McCain can swat Obama down pretty quickly on this, for proposing a band-aid fix instead of a realistic long-term solution.

Only hypocritically. Unless you're talking about someone other than John “Gas Tax Holiday” McCain.

I wonder if the wacky GOP theatre in the House, and the hammering of Pelosi on the Sunday talk show, is playing to this.

McCain can swat Obama down pretty quickly on this, for proposing a band-aid fix instead of a realistic long-term solution.

I am actually very surprised, as Obama's policy proposals show far more thought than this (even when I disagree with them). His aides are being reactive rather than proactive.

What is with the Democratic party? They have an overwhelming cash advantage…everyone has said it is a Democratic year . . . and yet they are running spooked at a minor drop in the polls and some tough questions.

Fascinating.

(Funny, too)

Selling high and buying low seems to make pretty good sense, no? I mean, it's what the stock market – that driver of capitalism – is all about.

If he was really keen, he'd talk about how in industry and for domestic use, energy is created mostly from turbine power….how nuclear is only in place to produce steam…yes, just steam folks…to run turbines that geothermal could run without creating new hideous terrorist targets and radioactive waste for centuries to come. He'd discuss the simple mechanics of how steam turbines work so the public can see how they're being hornswaggled into accepting more dangerous forms of producing steam to run simple turbines.

He would discuss how more demand for solar would create a market for the products and spur competition, driving down price for PV panels. He would discuss energy in simply “ma and pa” terms that deflect what the GOP is trying to push: more antiquated, dirty, filthy, dangerous coal, oil and nuclear production of simple steam. Steam that is lying just under the feet of the entire western half of the lower 48.

For transportation he would discuss how fossil fuels must be strictly for torque-needing machinery and trucks/ farm equipment. He would tell people in simple terms how the new lithium-ion batteries for electric cars are going to make their mass-production and mandation happen by 2010. He would offer alternatives to electric cars by explaning the simple process of using clean forms of energy to do electrolysis to water to split the molecule into Oxygen and Hydrogen gas…to fuel hydrogen cars.

He would tell people that instead of belching out noxious dinosaur fumes to melt our icecaps, hydrogen cars would recombing hydrogen with oxygen to form….water vapor as exhaust.

These amazing and simple technologies are out there. Obama would gain a lot of headway by discussing their mechanics to make people see him as knowledgeable, and to further support for alternatives that he correctly has been pushing.

Let's hope he can do this and not flip flop. And let's hope he has a plan to rebut that other thing…

Withdrawing 1 million BBLS of oil per day would bring the prices down by about 25 cents a gallon and take the heat off the people demanding oil be drilled to ease the prices.. 75 days would get him to the election without having to bear the brunt of high energy prices and a stubborn Democratic party that wont drill if gas was a 100 dollars per gallon because they are still worshipping Al Gores Nobel Peace Prize.

While I would favor the release of 75 million bbls as part of a bipartisan bill that was signed into effect thus essentially easing the budren and guaranteeing that we will drill and that we will work on alternatives.

However this is totally designed to assuage prices a little for just long enough to once again lie to the American people just long enough to get elected.