I will spend some time reviewing the Obama and McCain campaign materials for Energy Policy. As this blog highlights, my interests are reducing/eliminating our dependency on foreign oil, incentivize private industry to develop alternative energy sources, reduce our overall energy consumption, and reduce our carbon and methane emissions from the production of energy.

I would like to do this as quickly as possible, with private industry and individuals taking the lead, with incentives as opposed to punitive fees or taxes, with economic development in mind, and with transparency and collaboration wherever possible.

With these in mind, I have established a scoring system to rank some of the current ideas being talked about or not being talked about by the 2008 Presidential candidates.

All factors are 1-10, 1 being the weakest in supporting the goals, 10 being strong.

Time to Market

Foreign Oil Use Reduction

Funding

Promoting new Technology

Environment

For a total of 50 points.
More to come.