1. )

• Barack Obama wants to create new standards for how America uses energy. "Obama will create a federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) that will require 25 percent of American electricity be derived from renewable sources by 2025, which has the potential to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs on its own" (Plan to Strengthen the Economy).
• Hillary Clinton also has a plan to combat global warming: "A $50 billion Strategic Energy Fund, paid for in part by oil companies, to fund investments in alternative energy. The SEF will finance one-third of the $150 billon ten-year investment in a new energy future contained in this plan" (Powering America's Future: New Energy, New Jobs). She also wants us to cut foreign oil imports by 2/3. But she fails to explain how all this is going to help the economy.
• John McCain's campaign website doesn't really outline any specific solutions to the problem pertaining the environment or global warming. The site explains that McCain believes Americans have a responsibility to take care of the environment and "He believes that ignoring the problem reflects a "liberal live for today" attitude unworthy of our great country, and poses a serious and unacceptable threat to our environment, our economy, and U.S. national security. He has offered common sense approaches to limit carbon emissions by harnessing market forces that will bring advanced technologies, such as nuclear energy, to the market faster, reduce our dependence on foreign supplies of energy, and see to it that America leads in a way that ensures all nations do their rightful share" (Stewards of Our Nations Rich National Heritiage).

2. ) I would have to say that McCain's solutions are the weakest. He fails to give specific examples of what exactly is going to be done and how it is going to help. Hillary and Obama both seem to have really good solutions. I can't say I'm in any position to judge whether or not the solutions could actually work...I guess America just has to trust whoever we elect...

3.) McCain had the most fallacies. He was just repeating slogans and 'miss america talk' instead of providing specific examples. He seemed to be beating around the bush; he was very vague.

4.) I definitely think that Hillary has a lot of great solutions to combat global warming. However, I'd like to ask her how she plans on increasing the amount of stable jobs, if she is going to do anything about retirement (like, have more companies offer retirement plans for workers), and whether or not she thinks her deadlines (2020, 2030, etc) are realistic. COnsidering the fact that it takes 50 years to phase in a new energy source, I don't see how 2020 can be a realistic deadline for "reducing electricity consumption". Where are the other sources of electricity going to come from?

5.) An excellent way to help out is Habitat for Humanity. This organization is huge; they have it in every major city and town. They sponsor so many things, including building homes for the homeless in poor countries. This helps the environment because instead of letting some industrial company buy the land and use it for factories or something else that is detrimental to the environment, volunteers come in and give something back to those in need. They even build energy-efficient houses, which is great.