OH-16: John Boccieri(D) - A "Citizen Journalist's Take" on the Energy Issue

"We need to focus not on middle-east oil, but on mid-west innovation." ~ Senator Major John Boccieri(D-Alliance)

I spend an incredible amount of time at this keyboard writing about the Congressional Race that's brewing here in OH's 16th District. I can come across "gems" that make the whole process of reaching out to the netroots community a pleasure. "Citizen Journalism" is one of today's polical heroes in The Netroots Nation. Today, I happened to stumble upon one of those beauties in The Canton Repository's, "Letters to the Editor":

Boccieri offers short-, long-term solutions to America's energy problems
Thursday, July 31, 2008

The present energy crisis has become an important issue in the lives of all Americans and in the political debate. To see where each candidate for the 16th Congressional stands, I went to both state Sen. Kirk Schuring's and state Sen. John Boccieri's Web sites.

The Schuring sites reads: "Kirk believes we need to look at both long term and short-term solutions to our energy problems. … We need start immediately doing more to take advantage of the natural resources in our own backyard, as well as look to alternative energy solutions that won't put a burden on the economy and on the pocket book of citizens of our community."

Schuring has also publicly stated that opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and more of America's coastal waters to drilling is a "short-term" solution to high gas prices.

I guess that to him, short-term is 20 years because that's how long it will take to get oil from those two objectives.

The Boccieri energy plan includes the following: "Require oil companies to drill on the 68 million U.S. acres" they already hold leases to; "invest in next-generation biofuels that can be grown in the 16th District; build new local refineries to process biofuels and other next-generation fuel sources; create an Apollo program to revolutionize our energy sources": invest in cutting-edge technologies like wind, solar, clean coal and biomass power; and free us from oil dependence forever.

Between the two candidates, it is clear that only John Boccieri has "short-term" solutions to the oil crisis.

DAVID B. MCCOY, PERRY TOWNSHIP

To me there is nothing more awesome than when the voters see through the "noise and distractions" being thrown at them by the MSM and Potomac Villagers. Mr. McCoy receives a standing round of applause right her, right now! He gets it and I give him the video version of his observations:




You can read more about Senator Major John Boccieri's Energy Plan here.