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University of Wisconsin Students for McCain held a sparsely attended town hall meeting on energy Thursday evening in Tripp Commons, the first of four that will be held in the weeks before the election.
UW junior Stephen Duerst, a member of Students for McCain and College Republicans, spoke to the crowd of four students about McCain’s energy policy and the importance of students voting for McCain in the upcoming election.
“These issues may seem distant to you now, but when you get out of college in the next few years, it’s not going to be as easy as hopping on your bike and riding down University [Avenue],” Duerst said.
Duerst spoke about the several facets of McCain’s energy policy, which includes lifting bans on offshore drilling to tap into the oil and natural gas reserves off the coast of the United States.
“We are currently the only nation in the world that has put a ban on the amount of oil and natural gas we can extract … and this should not be happening, because we still have several years’ worth of oil and natural gas left within our reserves,” Duerst said. “The key to lowering oil and gas prices in the U.S. is to use our reserves.”
Duerst continued to speak about McCain’s plan to increase tax breaks to businesses to encourage them to develop more fuel-efficient vehicles and reduce greenhouse emissions. He added the importance of incentives to researchers to advance clean coal technologies, as well as increases in the use of nuclear power and Flex-Fuel technologies.
“John McCain is thinking smart,” Duerst said. “He will involve less government and offer more incentives to private businesses.”
However, Matt Lehrich, a spokesperson for Campaign for Obama, disagrees.
“John McCain is four more years of the same thing we’ve had for the last eight years,” said Lehrich.
Lehrich added McCain would not support a tax relief bill for middle-class families because it did not provide tax breaks for oil companies, and that despite what McCain has said, he has not made any real commitment to renewable energy.
Students for McCain will continue to host town hall events every Thursday night at 7 p.m. at Memorial Union until the presidential election on Nov. 4, with topics including economy and foreign affairs.
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WOW! That’s a worse attendance achievement than ASM!
A few comments:
—Four people is still infinitely better than many ASM forums.
—Who schedules a forum during a Brewers game?
—Who schedules a forum so people can’t get home in time to catch the VP debate?
“Town Hall” meetings… without the town. Drill, baby, drill….? I guess.
Why bother covering an event with 4 people? Who cares?
Part of me wants to laugh at how few young republicans there are, but the realist in me knows that anyone who was even vaguely interested in politics was watching the debate last night. Why didn’t they cancel, or better yet, why didn’t they get a giant TV and have a partisan pep rally for McCain/Palin. Are young republicans stupid, or are they just not “thinking smart”?
Thank you for the talking point Matt Lehrich, we havent heard that enlightening response before.
You should also try using a fact checker. The whole argument that John McCain only supports tax cuts for oil companies is ridiculous in that it leaves out one major fact. The bill that is being referenced supports tax cuts for ALL corporations and does not single out one single industry (like the Democratic party has in its argument.) Oh and for those of you out there afraid of the big bad corporations, they’re not just your Exxon Mobils and Wal-Marts…they are every hard-working business that has made the move to incorporate itself.
J.G.
uhhh the event started at 7pm and ended half an hour before the debate. brewer game…choosing the leader of the free world…i think you may have your priorities amiss. if the best attack on our intelligence that you can make based on this article is that we should’ve held an event that had been planned for weeks at a different time because of a baseball game, i’m feeling pretty good about being republican right now.
you can pick a president every 4 years the brewers haven’t made the playoffs since 1982