Paul Siegel: July 2008 Archives

By this time everybody knows that Barack Obama delivered an outstanding speech in Germany. It was greeted by a raving audience of over 200,000 people streching for a mile. Obviously he was a hit. Republicans are so scared of the affect of this grand reception on the American public, they are denigrating everything about the speech.

President Bush's main reason for not promoting the development of clean energy - wind, solar and other non-carbon fuels - is that it may be a burden on business. He and many economists have been telling us that all-out investment in CO2-free fuels would place a burden on our economy. We should, they say, concentrate on oil and coal, at least for now.