Stephen Metzger

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

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.)