Prior to 3rd Presidential Debate, World Energy TV Interviews Matt Simmons, Clayton Williams and Others
WorldEnergy.TV interviewed Clayton Williams, Matt Simmons, Rod Erskine and several other high-ranking executives on the presidential candidates and their energy policies, prior to tonight’s third presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama at New York’s Hofstra University. To watch, visit www.WorldEnergy.TV.
“We’ve survived in spite of politicians, and the free market has worked through some of the idiotic things that are done in Washington,” Clayton Williams, Texas independent and industry legend, told WorldEnergy.TV.
Oil investor Matt Simmons asserted that about half of Obama’s comments make some sense, and only about 10 percent of McCain’s make sense. Rod Erskine of Erskine Energy, by contrast, believes that “McCain has a little better handle on energy than Obama does, but I don’t think either candidate – or the American public – really understands what it takes to drill for, find and develop oil and gas.”
Bill Daugherty of NGAS Resources told World Energy Television that both candidates have similar plans, now that Obama has agreed to some offshore drilling, but that Obama wants a windfall profits tax and McCain doesn’t. Said John W. Robinson of North Ranch Resources: “I see energy policies being a broad-based set of criteria through which we address both the production and demand sides, do conservation work and look at all alternatives. Unfortunately, some political factions want to limit one or more of those.”
Many expressed hope that U.S. consumers would muster the will to change how they approach energy. “We need nuclear, wind and natural gas, and we need to shift our cars to natural gas and get serious about getting off foreign oil,” Williams explained. About high pump prices, he stated: “There are lots of solutions. I think maybe the first step is to quit whining and do something about it.”
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