“We must take action now to address the energy crisis we are facing,” said Representative Stacey Fitts (R-Pittsfield), engineer in the renewables industry who serves on the Legislature’s Utilities and Energy Committee and the Governor's Wind Power Task Force. “With 80% of Maine homes reliant on oil and gas for heat and the U.S. spending $700 billion a year for foreign oil, we have to look at changing our culture of dependence on foreign oil -- beginning with exploring our off-shore domestic oil supply and taking another look at nuclear power and other alternative energy sources, as John McCain proposes.  Maine families and workers cannot afford to elect a candidate like Barack Obama, who opposes every form of domestic production and who has said ‘no’ time and time again to any real, meaningful and long-term solutions to this crisis.” For more information on John McCain’s comprehensive energy plan, please go to:  The Lexington Project:  Breaking Our Dependence on Foreign Oil. For more information from the RNC, please go to Dr. NObama. ###