Excerpts from McCain’s Remarks at the Michigan Nuclear Power Plant

Please see the following excerpt from the remarks as prepared for delivery today by Senator John McCain during his scheduled visit to the nuclear power plant in Newport, Michigan:

Solving our national energy crisis requires an “all of the above” approach.  That will require aggressive development of alternative energies like wind, solar, tidal and bio-fuels.  It also requires expanding traditional sources of energy like off shore drilling, clean coal, and nuclear power like the power produced at this plant here in Michigan.

Senator Obama has said that expanding our nuclear power plants “doesn’t make sense for America.”  He also says no to nuclear storage and reprocessing. I couldn’t disagree more.  I have proposed a plan to build additional nuclear plants.  That means new jobs, and that means new energy.  If we want to enable the technologies of tomorrow like plug-in electric cars, we need electricity to plug into.

Now, nuclear power alone is not enough.  Drilling alone is not enough.  We need to do all this and more.  That is why I am calling for an “all of the above” approach. I am also calling on Congress to come back into session to deal with this pressing energy challenge. I am prepared to take time off the campaign trail and I hope Senator Obama is too.

It is time for America to get serious about energy independence.  Our nation is sending $700 billion overseas every year to countries that don’t like us very much.  When I’m president that’s going to stop.  We’re going to achieve energy independence, and we’re going to do it by using every resource at our disposal to get the job done.