GOP oilman backing Obama

Janette sent me this some time ago:

"John McCain is energy illiterate," Simmons is saying. "He's just witless about this stuff. As a lifelong Republican, I'm supporting Obama." A dozen oil and gas men sitting around a conference table in Lafayette, La., chuckle nervously as he continues. "McCain says, 'Oh, we're going to wean ourselves off foreign oil in four years and build 45 nuclear plants by 2030.' He doesn't have a clue."

. . . McCain's midsummer move to begin campaigning on a platform of more offshore drilling has only hardened Simmons's position. "What a hypocrite," says Simmons, who supported McCain's rival Mitt Romney in the primary - no surprise given Simmons's history with the Romney family. "Here's a man who for at least the past 15 years has strenuously, I mean strenuously, opposed offshore drilling. And now it's 'drill, drill, drill.' And he doesn't have any idea that we don't have any drilling rigs. Or that we don't have any idea of exactly where to drill." (As for McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, Simmons says: "She's a very colorful person, but I don't think there's a scrap of evidence that she knows anything about energy.")

Tax Cuts Compared - Update

I saw this handy little chart that shows the changes in tax rate by size of population.

Click to enlarge.

I don't support Obama for this reason, our household gets a slightly bigger tax cut from McCain but that is because we are relatively well-off, but it is simply fair that those who can afford it be asked to pay their fair share. The McCain plan is that as you make more we will cut your taxes more - which is always the Republican plan but sometimes they are not as open about it.

Ironic Question Time - Do you really think that Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a card carrying member of the Illuminati and a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, is supporting McCain because Obama is too elitist? It's her pocketbook and prejudices she is supporting.

Update - Freakonomics looks at three charts with this same data.

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