At a town hall meeting in Dayton, Ohio, Barack Obama focused his remarks on energy - something the two candidates have been sparring over for weeks. Obama has called McCain’s gas tax holiday a gimmick and says off shore drilling won’t have an impact for years. Neither fix, Obama has said, addresses the larger need to ween the country off of our dependence on oil - which McCain hasn’t addressed in his 26 years in office.

On the other side, the McCain camp has said that Obama doesn’t mind record high gas prices. Just today their campaign sent a statement to reporters reading, “Today, Barack Obama criticized wind, hydropower, domestic oil drilling, gas tax relief and nuclear power but did not offer a single proposal to bring down gas prices. The difference is Obama’s ‘Dr. No’ approach believes that every energy source has a problem and John McCain believes that every energy source can be part of the solution Americans need right now.”

In fact Obama did point out flaws with wind, hydropower, and nuclear power today at his town hall today when a voter expressed concerns on storing nuclear waste. Obama told the crowd that we have to utilize experts to figure out a way to store the waste safely because nuclear power has “a very big advantage” in that it doesn’t cause global warming and concluded that “nuclear power is gonna have to be a part of the mix. I know some people don’t like to hear that, but there is no perfect energy source.”

So what did “Dr. No” take issue with? Read part of his answer below:

“Every energy source has a problem, even energy sources that sound really clean, like for example hydropower. I was in Oregon, it turns out it’s messing up the salmon runs and the fish are being affected. You know wind is a great energy source except sometimes it’s not windy…I don’t think we can eliminate any single energy source….Solar, wind, biofuels - all these different approaches we should try and make different investments and figure out what works.”

While it may be a stretch for the McCain campaign to characterize the presumptive Democratic nominee as “Dr. No” when it comes to alternative energy, Obama also got in on the action. “[McCain's] voted against alternative sources of energy.  Against clean biofuels.  Against solar power.  Against wind power.  Against an energy bill that represented the largest investment in renewable sources of energy in the history of this country. So when John McCain talks about the failure of politicians in Washington to do anything about our energy crisis, understand that John McCain should look in the mirror because he has been a part of that failure,” Obama said of his Republican rival.