…and like most reviews I’ve read this morning, they’re also asking “Where’s the beef?”
All this sounds fine, but it’s also a little like campaigning for delicious, low-fat cake. Who’s going to disagree? Greens love anything clean and renewable and have even, for the most part, come around to the virtues of nuclear power, providing strict safety standards can be maintained and someone can figure out what to do with the waste. The energy industry loves nukes and clean coal, and if they have to make a little room at the table for windmills and solar panels, well that can’t hurt too much. Plus, Bush also called for doubling the size of the nation’s strategic energy reserve, boosting oil demand by putting the government in line for a massive fill-up on the federal credit card.
What the president didn’t do after all this ambitious call to arms was put forward any serious ideas — or even any unserious ones — about how to make it happen. Remember all that talk about hydrogen cars? Get yours’yet? No, and you’re not likely to for a very long time either. – Time.com
While Time is still waiting for their future car, residents of New Orleans are still waiting for promised money (funny how that didn’t get a mention in last night’s speech), we’re still addicted to foreign oil, and I’m left holding thousands of dollars in switchgrass futures.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and son Carter.
