Thomas Friedman writes in the New York Times recently that our inability to get a revolutionary energy and climate change policy through Congress is essentially "pathetic." He is right. Facing what are incredible challenges for the future of our country and our WORLD, we are at an impasse, with a law-making body that is impotent and too self-centered to do what is needed and what is right. Friedman proposes that we could, and we should, "pass an energy bill that begins to end our oil addiction." By doing so, we would "shrink the piles of money we send to the worst regimes in the world, strengthen our dollar by keeping more at home, clean up our air, take away money from the people who finance the mosques and madrassas that keep many Muslim youths backward, angry and anti-American and stimulate a whole new industry — one China is already leapfrogging us on — clean-tech."
While I don't agree with everything Friedman writes or proposes, I do think he is correct that a new approach to energy in this country is an imperative, plain and simple. Similarly, while Republicans are definitely the obstacle today, I think it is fair to say all politicians are pretty reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them. What can we do to get past the gridlock, break our current system of special interests, and actually pass an energy bill that could end up being a win win win win win win??
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