With the skyrocketing energy costs, energy policies are coming front and center in this election. Barack Obama has taken the wrong side of three major issues. John McCain has gotten it right on nuclear power, ethanol, and oil drilling.

John McCain has pledged to build 45 nuclear power plants by 2030 if he is elected president. This would be a 50% increase. Barack Obama said that he does not believe nuclear power is part of the solution to our energy problems. These are two starkly different stances on nuclear power. Nuclear power produces 0 carbon emissions. It does not require any fossil fuels. This would also free up our coal resources to export overseas to help offset the trade deficit.

John McCain has come out against the further subsidizing of ethanol while Obama has come out in support of such subsidies. The subsidies break down to about a dollar a gallon of gas. It takes over 450 pounds of corn to fill an SUV gas tank. Sure, this does not require imports of oil; however it does raise the prices of food. High fructose corn syrup is in just about everything that we eat. Therefore, every time the supply of corn for consumption is shrunk, the price of food increases.

John McCain is absolutely correct with his support for drilling domestically. ANWR alone could pump out one million barrels of oil each day. We import 10 million barrels of foreign oil each day. This would offset that need by 10%. If we expand this to offshore drilling, we could offset a large amount of our foreign dependence. There would be more supply of oil in the country. This would lower the price of oil significantly. This would reduce our dependence on foreign oil significantly. This is the solution to our problem while we continue to develop technologies like the hydrogen fuel cell. Barack Obama does not even want to consider this. He is telling the country that he would rather stick to his partisan policies than help our country’s oil problems.

John McCain and Barack Obama differ on three major energy issues. Barack Obama is taking positions that will destroy our nation’s economy. John McCain is standing up for the American people. Barack Obama is standing up for his environmental lobbyists. John McCain is standing up for the American economy. Barack Obama is standing up for the economic policies that derailed this country under Jimmy Carter. Barack Obama is standing up for policies that will return this country to the dark days of the 1970’s. John McCain is standing up for economic policies that will assure that the United States will remain the global voice for freedom, hope, and prosperity.