Expect an Obama presidency to take any increase in fossil fuel taxes and use those directly to reduce fossil fuel consumption going forward

You'll have to back that up. His rhetoric is just that, rhetoric. How do I know? Look at his plan. 150,000,000,000 for research.

Bollocks. On the number and the plan. Show me 500,000,000,000 on implementing things we can do right now, today and another 250,000,000,000 for R&D.

Show me actions, not talk.

Cheers

The money is for research and implementation both. Might be a worth while read to look at his Energy plan in more detail:

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/pdf/EnergyFactSheet.pdf

I'm a little leery of the biofuel section myself, but the rest of the plan seems reasonable.

http://www.bravenewleaf.com