What The President Would Do

BTW – don’t blame the President for the U.S. slipping behind. From Day One of his presidency, he has been pointing in the direction of a sound, sensible political compromise on New Energy. His political opponents refuse to say “yes” to it and his political allies condemn it as a sellout. It is a simple, powerful idea: Get what New Energy needs (to save the world) by letting the Old Energies have enough of what they ask for to prove their ideas are as destructive as the West Virginia coal mine cave in, the Gulf oil spill and the Fukushima meltdowns.

Notice that - in this, today's Saturday speech, and in all his presentations on the subject - he argues for New Energy not on the grounds that it will save the world – because there are too many people who can’t relate to that concept? – but on the grounds that a New Energy economy will create jobs and eliminate dependence on foreign oil. From whitehouse.gov via YouTube