McCain's tilting at wind turbines

John McCain recently tried to underscore his seriousness about pushing through a new energy policy, with a strong focus on more drilling... John McCain recently tried to underscore his seriousness about pushing through a new energy policy, with a strong focus on more drilling for oil, by telling a motorcycle convention that Congress needed to come back from vacation immediately and do something about America's energy crisis. Sorry, but I can't let that one go by. McCain knows why. It was only five days earlier, July 30, that the Senate was voting for the eighth time in the past year on a broad, vitally important bill (S. 3335) that would have extended the investment tax credits for installing solar energy and the production tax credits for building wind turbines and other energy-efficiency systems. Both the wind and solar... [read full story]