Posted by Jed Lewison on Tue Aug 5, 2008 at 11:03 AM Pacific

McCain's Austerity Program: Drive Less, Turn Out Lights

So now that John McCain has come out against driving on fully inflated tires, what exactly is his energy plan? Well, it turns out he told us -- on April 12, 2008:

And I'm sorry to tell you that the price of oil -- as far as I can tell -- is not gonna go down anytime soon until we eliminate our dependency on it.

We can do that as a nation -- we can turn out the lights five minutes earlier, we don't have to drive the extra block.

This actually seems pretty sensible to me, but I guarantee you that any conservative who hears it will start calling him John McCarter.