This is better than the usual schtick we get from him.  He tells why McCain is wrong at least.

But still the same old Friedman.

Better to talk about it this way Tom.

Demand reduction.  Sure renewable energy technology is key, but at first it is all about recognizing that only demand reduction can save our economy.  Without that rescue from stagflation produced by soaring oil prices, we won't have the capital to develop the new technology.

We need a plan somewhat like Obama's.  He is going in the right direction by proposing an incremental 4% per year increase in mileage standards.

But more is needed, we need an actual incremental oil demand reduction, say 4% per year, 1% per quarter.  It's easy to measure, and at first it is easy to attain. 

Simple fuel economy measures, like tire inflation and engine tuneups and consumer moves towards higher mileage cars, bikes, and mass transit would get us through the first year or two.  This is the sort of thing that can be done with encouragement, like FDR used during WW2. 

Patriotic sacrifice, the president making it clear that these savings are necessary to revive the economy and keep our leadership position, financially, politically, and militarilly in the world.  Obama is the kind of leader who can inspire that.

As the currency strengthens, inflation wanes, and investor, consumer, and business confidence is restored by this steady progress, bolstered by the feeling of participation and collective success through sacrifice, the capital will be there for the next phase.

As oil war ends, finally, with the realization that we are now getting control of the oil supply/demand equation, by steadily reducing demand; capital will become available for investment in a shift to plugin hybrids, freight rail instead of long haul trucking, and ground source heating/cooling.

This will be the source of years of gradual oil demand reduction.  And as manufacturing and job and tax base are restored, the boom will power itself, with continuing innovation, to finally eliminate oil imports completely after 10 to 15 years.

The foreign policy and trade leverage gained will allow our leaders to spread peace worldwide by facing down dictatorships economically, with negotiation, techniological aid, and deomcratization of politics and freedom of markets through example.  Rather than the vain attempt to use military force.

This is the sort of simple plan a leader like Obama can initiate.  And the huge fledgling manufacturing and resource market economies of this world, like China, Russia, and India,now under kleptocratic rule, will see that our way is better and emulate it voluntarilly.

Then along with help from wind, solar, wave, ocean current, hydro, and biogas from waste energy systems powering the new energy economy through smart grids, GHG climate disaster will be only a bad dream that never really happened.

Unbelievable, but true!  Read about the flip-flopping.  Corruption.  McCain lies, and attempted coverup.

What's next?  How could Palin surprise us now? 

Any toe-tappin' gon' on, on that oil rig?  Sarah's hubby is away from home for long periods of tiime spent on manly pursuits.  Oil riggin', commercial fishin', and snowmobile racin'.  A wide stance for any man to take!

Men can get mighty lonely away from their wimin folks.  Stay tuned!  Hehey.

(Not that there's anything wrong with that!)

At least a Palin vice and eventually presidency as McCain leaves office, one way or another, will be great fodder for comedy.

I'm not saying she is alaskan trailer trash, I'm just saying, click here and try to cheer up.  The trailer trash swimming pool is especially great!   One of these on whitehouse grounds would be excellent.

How about a condo for Bristol and her new family?  Just wheel one in!  What could be easier?

It's official, a vote for McCain/Palin is a vote for a whole new wave of glamor behind underage teenage motherhood.  Isn't it wonderful?  Just think, a teen mom in the whitehouse.  Every other teen girl will want one too.  That's Palin family values for america.

Fundamentalist (creationist) abstinence?  Whoops, not so much.  Population growth unlimited to provide cheap labor, cannon fodder, and faithbased voters to power the corporate war machine?  Let the voters decide.

Reuters: "The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.
   
Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin's five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said. 'We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us,' the Palins' statement said. 'Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support,' the Palins said."

Hear the robot Stepford wife audio of Palin on the great news for her family!

You thought Wolf killer cheney was THE Darth Vader of modern politics?  Alaska Governor Sarah Palin makes him look like Casper the Fiendly (sic) Ghost.  It's hard to imagine a worse "sport" than this. 

But there is one, namely running down Wolves and Coyotes on snowmobiles until their hearts burst from exhaustion.  Does Palin support that too?  Hard to say, but her husband is a snowmobile racer.

As Kate sheppard writes in Grist:

"Palin has also drawn heat from conservationists for pushing to let citizens shoot wolves from the air, and for supporting looser bear-hunting rules aimed at reducing bear populations in order to inflate numbers of moose and caribou, which draw big-game hunters to the state. She opposed a ballot initiative to change the law so that only Department of Fish and Game personnel could shoot wolves or bears from the air."

Volunteer at your local Obama campaign office NOW!  These corporo-sadists disguised as humans must not win this time around.

An interesting take on McCain's VP pick.  check the video from an alaskan tv station.

"The taser incident (requested by the son, not that that justifies it), an illegal moose killing (moose eaten by Sarah Palin and other family members), and the beer drinking occurred in 2002-2003. It was only in 2005- after a nasty divorce- that Palin and her family reported the ex-brother-in law.

They filed 36 complaints against the ex, including for behavior they had COVERED UP for years. The trooper has had no other complaints filed against him other than from Palin family members.

That was before she was governor. The trooper was disciplined, perhaps not adequately for many people.

Then Palin becomes governor, and she, her husband and senior staff all try to get the DPS commissioner to fire the trooper. The commissioner refuses, and is fired.

Palin denies any pressure; senior staff won't comment (they will when they are put under oath shortly) or "can't recollect."

Palin has been so busy pointing fingers at other politicians that people didn't realize that she was as much "politics as usual" as anyone.

There's considerable sentiment in Alaska that she has engaged in a major coverup. As we know, the coverup is usually worse than the crime."