"Despite his rhetoric, John McCain’s offshore drilling proposals would not deliver relief on prices to American consumers until 2030, according to the Department of Energy. McCain is right that the problem is urgent, but that calls into question why he refuses to support the fastest way to get relief to American consumers—releasing oil from our government’s plentiful oil reserves—and why he missed every single vote on renewable energy in the last 18 months."
Daniel J. Weiss is a Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Strategy at the Center For American Progress Action Fund