The Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, proposed energy policies away from the tanker solution to consumerism and the consequent damage to the environment, today warned the newspaper The New York Times.
In his career to reach the White House, Senator for Arizona abandoned their positions of yesteryear, which stimulated the emergence of clean technologies and constituted an obstacle to irrational use of important natural resource, the newspaper says.
According to the editorial titled The follies energy McCain, the legislature 72 years now stands extended to the coastal drilling platform in search of the so-called black gold and rejects taxes in the sector, apart from denying credits to generate solar and wind sources.
Although St. Paul, Minn., during his acceptance speech for the nomination, gave Americans an ambitious project that includes improving energy efficiency in fact increase oil production is the key to its strategy, says the source.
According to the Times, such a position is unfortunate, if one takes into account warnings from experts around the unsustainable patterns of consumption in progress, as well as the disastrous consequences of such climatic behavior.
Of particular concern-recalls-generated global warming, which are the main trigger emissions into the atmosphere resulting from fossil fuel, oil, coal and natural gas.
Evidence unequivocal claims of McCain is the choice of Sarah Palin as his partner formula, with a view to the forthcoming general elections of November.
The governor of Alaska promotes policy of "punches here, then there, but it is now," said the daily New Yorker.