A few hours after we posted Retooling for a New Energy Future, Bob Herbert's column, Not A Moment Too Soon, appeared in the New York Times. In the column, Herbert quotes from Barack Obama's recent radio address:
"We’ll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children and building wind farms and solar panels, fuel-efficient cars and the alternative energy technologies that can free us from our dependence on foreign oil and keep our economy competitive in the years ahead."
It's hard to avoid the sense that, at this precise, precarious moment in history, Obama is a sort of deus ex machina, swooping in to save us from ruin. It's hard not to feel elated by the prospect of having a wise, dynamic, engaged leadership in the saddle, and a positive new course for the nation. Maybe these feelings are immature, naive, exposed. Maybe we're setting ourselves up for a fall. OK, but for the first time in many years, Americans of every stripe can see mutual goals and ways to work together. That's huge.
Herbert's column, as always, is well worth reading top to bottom.
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