Obama: "The oil companies have placed their bet on Senator McCain." (w/ Video of speech)

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Obama: "The oil companies have placed their bet on Senator McCain." (w/ Video of speech)

While a few folks here panic over daily poll results, Barack Obama is doing what it takes to close the deal with the American people and drawaing a clear contrast with Senator McCain.

Senator McCain would not take the steps or achieve the goals that I outlined today. His plan invests very little in renewable sources of energy and he's opposed helping the auto industry re-tool. Like George Bush and Dick Cheney before him, he sees more drilling as the answer to all of our energy problems, and like them, he's found a receptive audience in the very same oil companies that have blocked our progress for so long.

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So make no mistake - the oil companies have placed their bet on Senator McCain, and if he wins, they will continue to cash in while our families and our economy suffer and our future is put in jeopardy.

Barack in Lansing, MI: "We must end the age of oil in our time."


This is a battle Obama will win. More, after the fold.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday called reducing the nation’s energy consumption "the great test of our time" and proposed billions of dollars in subsidies for business and consumers to encourage a "clean energy " future.

Politico: Obama calls for 'clean energy' nation

"For the sake of our security, our economy, our jobs and our planet, the age of oil must end in our time," Obama told a sold-out Detroit Economic Club luncheon that included some of the Motor City's top business and political leaders.

The Swamp: Obama: 'The age of oil must end'


Barack Obama sounds like Al Gore at times, and I like that.

We meet at a moment when this country is facing a set of challenges greater than any we've seen in generations. Right now, our brave men and women in uniform are fighting two different wars while terrorists plot their next attack. Our changing climate is placing our planet in peril. Our economy is in turmoil and our families are struggling with rising costs and falling incomes; with lost jobs and lost homes and lost faith in the American Dream. And for too long, our leaders in Washington have been unwilling or unable to do anything about it.

That is why this election could be the most important of our lifetime. When it comes to our economy, our security, and the very future of our planet, the choices we make in November and over the next few years will shape the next decade, if not the century. And central to all of these major challenges is the question of what we will do about our addiction to foreign oil.

Without a doubt, this addiction is one of the most dangerous and urgent threats this nation has ever faced - from the gas prices that are wiping out your paychecks and straining businesses to the jobs that are disappearing from this state; from the instability and terror bred in the Middle East to the rising oceans and record drought and spreading famine that could engulf our planet.

It's also a threat that goes to the very heart of who we are as a nation, and who we will be. Will we be the generation that leaves our children a planet in decline, or a world that is clean, and safe, and thriving? Will we allow ourselves to be held hostage to the whims of tyrants and dictators who control the world's oil wells? Or will we control our own energy and our own destiny? Will America watch as the clean energy jobs and industries of the future flourish in countries like Spain, Japan, or Germany? Or will we create them here, in the greatest country on Earth, with the most talented, productive workers in the world?

Barack in Lansing, MI: "We must end the age of oil in our time."

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(Video: http://dailykos.com/story/2008/8/4/142314/7340/467/559894">"Pocket" TV Ad)

This is how Obama is defining McCain. And it's going to work.

People understand a choice and Obama is offering one. More of the same that has not worked or change that will work. Tying McCain to Bush, Cheney and oil executives. That's the road to victory.

Update I: Video from NCDem Amy in the comments. Thanks, Amy!

(Video: http://dailykos.com/story/2008/8/4/142314/7340/467/559894">Obama:McCain Failed for Decades to End our Dependence on Oil)

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1. I like.

The oil age is going to end no matter what, but it would be nice for us to take this transition willingly and in a more prepared manner..

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2. The Republicans

will have to be dragged kicking and screaming up to the end.