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Do We Need an Alternative Energy 'Manhattan Project'?

MIltby deftly manouvers around the question of which party would give us the best chance at a "Manhattan Project". Both will have to. McCain's plan would be slower, slaved to the pace of the oil companies and Detroit. GM may be ready to start rolling out electric cars (this time), but they'd have to stand in line for the oil companies to make an orderly transition to other sources.

Obama wouldn't make things an alternative fuel nirvana, either. I believe he's a bit more pragmatic than the media and "the spin" would allow you to think. I think he'd start to link oil company subsidies to R&D into new fuels. We know he'd adopt some form of cap an trade, hopefully something better than the Euros have.

Most of all I think an Obama administration would set a tone of entreprenurial development.