With Millions Of Family Wage Manufacturing Jobs

So We Are Now Still Dependent On Foreign Oil, Have A Problem With Global Warming, And Are Losing Jobs Rapidly To The Japanese In Fuel-efficient Vehicles As A Result Of That Very Shortsighted Progress.

Air Is One We Hold In Common; It Has A Limited Carrying Capacity For Pollutants And That's Being Used Up By Those Who Pollute The Atmosphere. So We Have To Stop That Externality. We Would Never Allow A Utility To Put Their Coal Slag In A Dump Truck And Back It Up To The City Park And Dump It In Unlimited Amounts For Free. But That Is Exactly What We Do With Carbon Dioxide And Methane.

I Am Not One For Half Measures Or Half-hearted Efforts.

Not Wasting Energy. It Is The Least Sexy, But The Single Most Important And Always The Least Expensive. You Would Be Very Interested In A Report By The Mckinsey Consulting Firm That Concluded That 40 Percent Of Everything That We Have To Do To Mitigate Our Emissions Are Net Economic Winners. They Are Cost Effective And The Most Cost Effective Is Not Wasting Energy. That's Actually Going To Be The Largest Part Of This Whole Journey, I Believe - Using Less Energy With The Same Beneficial Results.

President Bush's Proposal To Focus Our Resources On Sending Humans To Mars Is Intriguing, But It Is Not The Most Compelling Reason That Americans Ought To Focus Our Interest On The Red Planet.