Lies, Damn Lies, and the McCain Campaign

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John McCain has morphed into Dick Cheney's evil twin, hellbent on destroying the possibility of ever having serious energy and climate policy in this country. All those who care about peak oil or global warming must work together to ensure his cynical lies don't triumph.

Yet Cheney never pretended to believe in the threat global warming poses to our nation and the world. McCain, however, did at least pretend, which makes his outright mockery of the primary solution -- energy efficiency and conservation -- something more than just classic Rovian lies and damn lies. Let's call them soul-destroying lies.

Once McCain was a lonely voice in the conservative movement pushing real action on global warming and opposing phony solutions like offshore drilling. True, like most conservatives he opposed and still opposes incentives and standards for renewables as well as levels of vehicle fuel economy needed to actually move us toward energy independence. And yes, McCain has walked away from serious climate policy in recent months (see McCain's climate plan = Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic).

But McCain now sees his only road to the White House as lying again and again to the American public:
We need to off-shore drill for oil and natural gas," McCain said, "And anybody who says we can achieve energy independence without using and increasing these existing energy resources either doesn't have the experience to understand the challenge we face or isn't giving the American people some straight talk.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-romm/lies-damn-lies-and-the-mc_b_117045.html