There were some great moments in today’s McCain campaign conference call with reporters, featuring Arizona’s other senator, Jon Kyl and former CIA Director
“„"Contrasted with Sen. [John] McCain’s balanced approach of more production and less use, you have ‘Dr. No,’ or as we in the Senate are referring to it, as a mantra of ‘No, we can’t.’ No, we can’t drill offshore. No, we can’t drill the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. No, we can’t do oil shale. Of course, he said he’s not a proponent of nuclear [energy], so no, we can’t do that. He’s even said, ‘No, we shouldn’t do a reward for the technology improvement for a battery that would allow people to use those kind of vehicles.’ It’s a very negative approach, which basically says there are no answers to the hurt that Americans are suffering right now. It’s up to leaders to come up with answers, and that’s what John McCain has done."
“„"Sen. Obama might want to take a time out to talk to his economic advisers. Futures markets are driven by expectations…and a strong initiative to expand future supplies has an unmistakable impact on the psychology of those traders about future stock prices and by definition the futures market translates immediately into changes in the entire set of future prices — from five years in the future to the present. The arithmetic of modern finance is something that certainly should not be debatable."
“„"For the United States, the reality is we haven’t been aggressive in opening exploration, so we haven’t been able to run the experiment, which is imperative for the American people right now."
“„"Sen. McCain recognizes that because of the emergency situation that people are in right now, we need a balance of things that can have an immediate impact, that can have a medium-term impact, and that can have a long-term impact. On production, for example, I know one of the arguments is it will take three to seven years, maybe 10 years. I’ve never gotten to a goal if I didn’t start the journey at some point. Everybody knows we would have oil coming out of [the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] had President Clinton not vetoed that 10 years ago."