Edwards home-heating plan
Posted: Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:28 PM by Domenico Montanaro
From NBC/NJ’s Tricia Miller
EDWARDS WEEKEND CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOKROCHESTER, N.H. -- Edwards unveiled his plan to make home heating available to more Americans at The Governors Inn here this afternoon. After an introduction from freshman Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, Edwards lamented the rising cost of heating homes during the Bush administration and then laid out his four-point plan to combat the problem.
“One is, you know we have an oil reserve that the country maintains which the president can release from,” he said, “and my view is the president should, given the high cost of home heating oil.”
The other three points are to fully fund the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, double assistance for national weatherization programs and offer low-interest loans to families making the choice that otherwise might put heating cost on high-interest credit cards. Following his stump speech, during which he waxed nostalgic about the World War II generation and called for universal health care, Edwards fielded questions on free trade agreements, the people he would appoint to the Cabinet as president, how he would reduce the Pentagon budget and how he would reduce poverty.
