Comments on: Questions Raised About McCain’s New Energy Proposals http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/06/23/2-new-energy/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: CZ-1 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/06/23/2-new-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-1460 CZ-1 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:24:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/06/23/2-new-energy/#comment-1460 Hmm...$300 million sounds like a lot. Now consider that we spend more than that <strong>PER DAY</strong> in Iraq. <blockquote>The $720 million figure breaks down into $280 million a day from Iraq war supplementary funding bills passed by Congress, plus $440 million daily in incurred, but unpaid, long-term costs. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092102074.html </blockquote> Hmm…$300 million sounds like a lot. Now consider that we spend more than that PER DAY in Iraq.

The $720 million figure breaks down into $280 million a day from Iraq war supplementary funding bills passed by Congress, plus $440 million daily in incurred, but unpaid, long-term costs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092102074.html

]]> By: HippyGourmet http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/06/23/2-new-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-1454 HippyGourmet Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:31:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/06/23/2-new-energy/#comment-1454 It's sad really. When you first hear the news that McCain wants to give someone $300,000,000 for a clean-tech innovation - your mind really wants to start thinking that he's kind of on the right track. Then of course you read the sub-text and how McCain has voted against tax breaks for electric and plug-in hybrid cars, as well as having plans to feed more tax breaks to the impoverished oil companies - and then you realize how it all works. They slip these stories into the mainstream media. People read them in the paper, or watch them on TV while eating their breakfast cereal, and then hear a sound byte of it again on the car radio - then on the internet and then finally on the evening news...and bingo, in one day McCain becomes a hero to the environment! Thanks for adding the true depth to the story. It’s sad really. When you first hear the news that McCain wants to give someone $300,000,000 for a clean-tech innovation – your mind really wants to start thinking that he’s kind of on the right track.

Then of course you read the sub-text and how McCain has voted against tax breaks for electric and plug-in hybrid cars, as well as having plans to feed more tax breaks to the impoverished oil companies – and then you realize how it all works.

They slip these stories into the mainstream media. People read them in the paper, or watch them on TV while eating their breakfast cereal, and then hear a sound byte of it again on the car radio – then on the internet and then finally on the evening news…and bingo, in one day McCain becomes a hero to the environment!

Thanks for adding the true depth to the story.

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