Jim Stillman
NevarThe Left's disappointment with the president
June 29th 2010 21:28
A while ago, speaking from the White House Oval Office, a locale reserved for the most important of addresses to the American public, President Obama spoke of the social and economic disaster that has been a consequence of the failure of BP’s Deepwater Horizon well. The investigations may continue beyond the eventual capping of the drilling rig, but regardless of the former’s duration, it is all but certain that the damages that have resulted may well continue and be felt for a generation or more.
In anticipation of the president’s address, I posted what I hoped he would state. I wanted President Obama to declare an all out determination to switch from the use of fossil fuels, primarily oil, within a ten year period just as John Kennedy set the goal of landing a man on the moon. I wanted him to explicitly demand that we develop alternative energy sources and cite chapter and verse on why we had to take this course and the costs of not doing so
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In anticipation of the president’s address, I posted what I hoped he would state. I wanted President Obama to declare an all out determination to switch from the use of fossil fuels, primarily oil, within a ten year period just as John Kennedy set the goal of landing a man on the moon. I wanted him to explicitly demand that we develop alternative energy sources and cite chapter and verse on why we had to take this course and the costs of not doing so
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