John McCain is angry. John McCain wants to be commander in chief. And he’s going to do whatever it takes to win the election, including feeding us a bunch of BS to do so. BS worth $300 million, no less.

McCain recently reversed his stance on offshore oil drilling - a pretty pointless stance as sucking up oil from California’s coast wouldn’t actually enter the consumer pipeline, no pun intended, until at least 5 years from now; this obviously wouldn’t help the current gas price crisis - and took a lot of heat for it. So he’s been pointing out how Brazil has net zero imports of crude in to the country, espousing the merits of E85 and flex fuel vehicles. Mr. McCain fails to mention that Brazilian E85 is based on sugar cane, NOT corn as it is based here in the States. Cane E85 is more efficient from field to gas tank, but I’m guessing that he’s espousing the corn lobby and midwest corn farmers. It is an election year, obviously.

But the really upsetting thing about his recent statements on energy policy is his claim that he will award a $300 million prize for "the development of a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars." So let me get this straight. Taxpayers are going to pay the tab for this prize to automobile manufacturers to improve the efficiency of their vehicles? Recent criticism from Washington and Detroit have accused the Japanese government of subsidizing the development of hybrid technology for the Japanese manufacturer of the Prius , the Camry Hybrid and so on. Sounds like more BS to me.