McCain promotes nuclear power (and trashes solar) in North Bend visit (Seattle Times blog)

[jpak]

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/2008/05/with_mccain_in_north_bend.html

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She said REI is converting 10 stores to solar this year, “in sunnier markets than the one you’re presently sitting in.” She said that some states, but not the federal government, have tax incentives that now make converting to solar financially viable.

Jewell said:

There isn’t anything significant that helps us make the right decisions.

McCain responded:

I’m a little wary of - I have to give you straight talk - about government subsidies. We just saw the impact, I think, of the subsidies for ethanol. I opposed the subsidies for ethanol because I thought it would distort the market. … When government jumps in and distorts the market then there are unintended consequences as well as intended consequences.

He said that happened after the gas crisis in the 1970s. He said there were “too many incentives given to the solar industry” and “we turned out to have some pretty shoddy material.”

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[tridim]

1. He's such a maverick.

:eyes:

[BlueManDude]

2. Imagine some GOP hack appointed head of the NRC? Makes "heckuva job Brownie"

sound like child's play.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. I suppose big companies prevented solar taking a hold

otherwise we would have been all solar by now

[depakid]

4. He was right about ethanol, at least

wish I could say that about his Democratic counterpart....