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June 25th, 2008

Energy: The Deciding Issue?

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Energy is shaping up to be the deciding issue for the 2008 presidential election. Even John McCain knows it: on Monday he announced that, as President, he would institute a $300 million prize for a more efficient car battery for hybrid and […]

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June 18th, 2008

John McCain begins Energy “talks”.

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At a press conference in Houston, Texas, John McCain held the first of (what has been described as) “a series of talks” to his plans for mitigating American dependence on foreign oil.  He proposed that the “swiftest path to energy security is to produce more, use less, and […]

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March 19th, 2008

Economic Policy in this Election

Yesterday, the National Review published an article that they called a “Symposium on Economics 2008.” They brought in several economists (all fairly Republican, admittedly — the National Review is known as a conservative publication) and asked them which candidates could help the economy and which could hurt it.
You’d expect at least some token support from […]

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