Nathan Lindquist (a favorite blogger of mine) quotes Obama on his number one priority in the Oval Office. Do you know what that is? According to Joe Klein, it is alternative energy:
But Obama seems a more certain policymaker now, if not exactly a wonk in the Clintonian sense. He has a clearer handle on the big picture, on how various policy components fit together, and a strong sense of what his top priority would be. He wants to launch an "Apollo project" to build a new alternative-energy economy. His rationale for doing so includes some hard truths about the current economic mess: "The engine of economic growth for the past 20 years is not going to be there for the next 20. That was consumer spending. Basically, we turbocharged this economy based on cheap credit." But the days of easy credit are over, Obama said, "because there is too much deleveraging taking place, too much debt." A new economic turbocharger is going to have to be found, and "there is no better potential driver that pervades all aspects of our economy than a new energy economy ... That's going to be my No. 1 priority when I get into office."
I think this is exactly what we need, and it could solve a lot of problems all at the same time: dependence on foreign oil, peak oil, global warming, unemployment, trade deficit and probably more.
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