McCain Calls For Federal Environmental Efforts

This week at the environmental briefing at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in Santa Barbara, Calif., Tuesday, June 24, 2008, John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others met to discuss the environmental issues of this year's upcoming campaign.

McCain publicly declared that the federal government should practice the energy efficiency he preaches, pledging as president to switch official vehicles to green technologies and do the same for office buildings.

Furthermore, this Monday, Republican presidential nominee John McCain proposed a $300 million prize to develop a car battery that will "leapfrog" today's plug-in hybrids.

His car battery prize is meant to spur creativity among automakers to make energy-efficient products.

"This is one dollar for every man, woman, and child in the U.S.--a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency--and should deliver a power source at 30 percent of the current costs," he said.

It's comforting to know that both the Democratic and Republican political parties have joined the environmental campaign.