CANDIDATES/GAS PRICE PROMISES/ALTERNATIVE FUEL SOURCES

The article linked by pressing this post's title is about how the candidates are promising lower gas prices and their strategies to effectively cut those gas prices. Isn't this the same song and dance we've been getting for months? We keep hearing politicians talk about lower gas prices, but the best they've been able to offer is stabilizing prices so that they aren't continuing to rise $.25 a week.

What an accomplishment! I mean the same week that both Bush AND McCain called over and over again for off-shore drilling for oil as a solution to our energy crisis, Honda rolled out the first few dozen of its commercially available hydrogen/electric hybrid.

We have reached a period of critical mass with our energy consumption: Either we continue to follow the archaic political solutions and power plays of the Cold-War Era ideologies of Bush, McCain and their like, or we adapt NOW to this rapidly emerging technology, one which will become widely available very soon, and which will leave us in the dust in terms of our industrial market. While GM still struggles to get their version of this car ready for mass-production, our government leaders have yet to get the clue that gas, oil, and politics in the Arab states are over. US citizens are tired of it and even if they don't all see this new type of technology as the solution, as soon as it becomes more reasonably priced and gains mass appeal, even doubters will see it as a better solution and Big Oil as an industry will see its downfall.

Whoever is determined to vote for McCain: If you do, we'll continue to see delays in critical technology that will free us from all of these energy woes and dependency on foreign powers, that's on top of the environmental impact of further flooding the oceans with pollutants. Think VERY carefully before you cast your vote.