The rest of the world is moving ahead with lowering carbon footprints. My favorite is Abu Dhabi's Masdar, the planned zero carbon, zero waste city project. Cost: $20-ish billion. Construction on the city's first phase and its massive solar farm is well underway.
Yesterday President Obama went to Denver to visit a solar panel installation at their Museum of Nature & Science.
Wow.
The difference was so stark that on his daily Air America online show, pundit Marc Maron remarked that Obama ought to have gone to Abu Dhabi instead of Denver:
"Break Room Live" 2/17/09
So how about it -- why is America so timid on alternative energy? Is it entrenched interests? Severe aversion to "risk"? Our focus on short-term profit? Should Obama appoint a Secretary of Innovation?
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