Citizen Dialogue

I stayed up to listen to the US second presidential debate, and I got pretty scared. Both Barack Obama and John McCain talked a lot about offshore drilling for new oil, and did´t reach in that good on alternative energy sources to the oil. John McCain talked about offshore drilling as the answer to the current problems in the United States, this is very dangerous to see more oil production as the answer.

McCain are also making a mistake when he try to score points on Obamas fears of what to do with nuclear waste. This is going to be a major issue for the future. How can we store something that will be dangerous to people for 100 000 years?

Obama, are also talking about offshore drilling, but makes a fair point when he says that it´s not only a challenge, it´s an opportunity. The country that will take the lead in creating new green technologies will get a lot of jobs and be a winner in the global society in the future.
- The United States have 3 percents of the worlds oil reserves, and we uses 25 percent of the worlds oil, we can´t just drill our way out of the problem, Obama says.

No one of the candidates are the real global leader to make change in this issue, but Barack Obama are by far the best choice of the two.