Blake’s Blog

As a candidate for U.S. Senate, perhaps Kenneth Eaton should choose his words a bit more carefully.

Eaton, who’s running against incumbent Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, sent out a news release Monday challenging the wisdom of relying on more offshore drilling for oil as a way to bail the country out of its energy crisis.

Eaton suggested a number of alternatives, including increased investment in solar and wind technology, plug-in hybrids, hydrogen fuel cells and even nuclear power.

Nothing too surprising there.

But he may have gotten just a tad carried away in the release:

"Give us five or 10 years of tax incentives for folks other than oil companies, and we’ll have this energy thing licked! Then Ahmedinejad and Chavez can peddle their oil to the Martians!"

Eaton should know better than to encourage those types of alliances.

I can see it now: Iran, Venezuela and Mars as the new Axis of Evil.