Arizona Republican John McCain and Illinois Democrat Barack Obama say a lot of the same things about energy and environmental policy: Both want to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil and fight global warming. Both want binding caps on greenhouse-gas emissions. Both see a stepped-up role for nuclear power. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
It's puzzling why the debate about Obama and McCain's policies on the environment is being framed in the context of the size and role of government. This is at least the second recent article that has done so. Here the view is conservative and the slant is that policies that favour a smaller government role are preferable. However, the size and role of government in environmental policy is not a fixed variable in increasing taxes, which is what the article seeks to imply. Government must set the US policy on energy and the environment and can not delegate that role to the market or corporations. Maybe the article isn't disingenuous with its argument but its certainly biased with its underlying preferences
