Candidates positions on global worming, nuclear weapons and ramifications of offshore drilling

Global Worming

Obama is highly against global worming and he went strait to telling his views it in his speech at University of Maryland, College Park on February 2. He promised to put mandatory caps on carbon dioxide emissions from industry. This will make the industries that have carbon dioxide emissions have to pay quite a bit of money to pay for the caps. Along with fuel the pledged make a fuel standard on 40 mpg’s. This will partially slow down the global worming America contributes to.John McCain vows to help fix global worming but doesn’t go any further that to tell the public that he is going to reduce our dependence on global worming. McCain hasn’t taken much of a hold on this issue, so for most environmentalists, they have moved more to supporting Obama because he actually has a plan for starting to fix global worming.

Nuclear Weapons

McCain strongly supports building and distributing nuclear weapons. He wants our country to never again be threatened be foreign nuclear weapons. He wants to spend 30 billion tax dollars to maintain and modernize our 10,000 nuclear weapons.

Obama is against using nuclear weapons, but says that he would not stop funding for building them in the United States. He tried not to talk too much about it in an interview he had. Although he was vague he was clear about the fact that he strongly against using nuclear weapons.

Offshore drilling

McCain is desperate to stop our dependence on foreign oil. He is so desperate that he is willing to sacrifice our environment just to start drilling offshore. In Florida the wild life has been protected from offshore drilling and now that they won’t to start drilling there, their wild life will soon start to die down. McCain was confronted about this in an interview he had on his campaign trail but he seemed adamant to continue his plan for offshore drilling despite the loss of wild life it will cause.

Obama opposes offshore drilling and doesn’t favor ending the law against offshore drilling. Although offshore drilling will help stop our dependence on foreign oil he wants to protect our waters ecosystem. In late July Obama told The Palm Beach Post that he is willing to compromise about energy policy that can bring down gas prices. He is not saying he is going to completely rid our country of offshore drilling, but he is saying he wants to be more eco-friendly. Obama’s plan for offshore drilling wont have the quickest results compared to McCain’s but his will end up saving environments that would have been destroyed by McCain.