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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (21143)	8/9/2008 12:04:58 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 25737

I was most struck by the essential similarity of both's 'energy policy proposals'.... Although both sets of proposals seem long on election hype and short of useful details (or the hard national choices that will no doubt be required of the next President), when one takes them point-by-point the differences seem not very striking. BOTH 'platforms' seem much more like electioneering... and less like actual meat-on-the-bones, separate the wheat from the chaff policy. IMO, about the only significant difference (once the 'impossible to achieve politically' and the 'merely election pandering that would have no real or measurable effects and so is unlikely to ever be passed in any way, shape, or form' - for example: gas tax 'holiday' of a few months, or 'windfall profits tax on oil' are striped off of the lists) we are left with a whole lot of basic similarity between the two sets of positions on most every thing except for one last thing of some major significance: Increased mileage standards for America's vehicle fleets, which is likely to be perhaps the largest single lever available to us to majorly affect the supply/demand equation. (IMO, McCain may be opposing this for one, and only one reason: a political calculation that it might help him to win Michigan in the Fall. If he were to win, I expect that even this one point of difference would soon be abandoned, as a new McCain administration faced the economic realities after an election win.)