Thursday, July 15, 2010

Seizing the Moment for Clean Energy


The transition from fossil fuels requires united global action – and some US leadership

Solo flying not advised: President Barack Obama at the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Florida. Energy independence cannot be national
SINGAPORE: Critics have rightly panned President Barack Obama’s response to the BP oil spill – but for all the wrong reasons. In comparing the spill’s devastation to that of 9/11, he hoped to make the crisis the turning point for US energy policy just as terrorist attacks transformed the country’s approach to national security. Critics focus on Obama’s lack of specifics and a relative absence of compelling rhetoric we have come to expect from this president.

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