Jim Gilmore's Space-Out

Well, today I was looking at candidate websites and ran across this note on the James Gilmore site. Former Governor Gilmore (R-Virginia) shares Senator Obama's concern for energy independence. He also, apparently, shares Senator Obama's capacity for non-market based solutions. Here is his plank:

Jim Gilmore will launch a national energy independence project called American Energy Freedom, a NASA like effort to motivate and stimulate American ingenuity and technology using research and development tax incentives to help free our nation from its dependence on foreign oil within 25 years. In the meantime, Jim Gilmore will push for steady and dramatic increases in domestic energy production and an increase in the size of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Jim Gilmore also will support expanding our use of alternative fuels like ethanol, making dramatic improvements in battery technology for plug-in hybrid vehicles and the long-range development of hydrogen power for vehicles

NASA? That's what we need. R and D incentives, we need that too. Is there any evidence that there is a lack of R and D in the energy sectors?

Like much of what we are currently getting from these alleged candidates, this is just platitudes. One gets the distinct impression Governor Gilmore hasn't got the foggiest idea of what to do about energy policy. But he supports expanding our use of alternative fuels. And what is the rationale for increasing the SPR?

Come on Governor, you can do better than this.