Guero

What Does Obama's Cabinet Have in Store for Alternative Energy?

Uh....GDP is already moving backwards absent a comprehensive alternative energy plan. Did you mean that GDP will retreat even faster than it is now?

Using this logic, it will never be the right time to develop a comprehensive alternative energy plan. I see no evidence that the incoming administration thinks it can "walk on water" in regards to alternative energy. Rather, they are recognizing that past efforts have been lacking and adopting an attitude that we do need to step up & put the same effort into this important area that we have put into weapons systems, space exploration, etc.

On Jan 19 09:07 AM Stephen Metzger wrote:

> Where the Obama administration and the Bush administration differ
> radically is in their adherence to the private market system. Obama's
> picks think they (and alternative energy) can walk on water, whereas
> President Bush, when it came to energy, saw energy independence as
> intrinsically tied to private markets. If, indeed, a plan is hatched
> and implemented to force alternative energy on the nation, GDP growth
> will slow to a walk (a stumbling one at that) and energy independence
> will be as far off as it ever was.
>
> The climate change/alternative energy crowd is inherently power-seeking
> in the political sense. To characterize Lisa Jackson's commitment
> to "fighting climate change" (oh, how noble!) as driven by science
> rather than politics is, in itself, an oxymoron. "CLIMATE CHANGE"
> IS A POLITICAL PHRASE AND A POLITICAL MOVEMENT, MR. MORAN! It has
> little or nothing to do with science. (By the way, Mr. Moran, whatever
> happened to the inconvenient lie, "global warming"? Becomes a bit
> of a liability with respect to common sense as we plow through one
> of the coldest winters in recent history.)