Obama Displeased with “Free Market” Hypocrites
When I was in Las Vegas last week for the National Clean Energy Summit, I had the pleasure of meeting a wonderfully talented journalist in the person of Craig Ruark. He and I were both similarly respectful, perhaps even reverential, of the talk President Obama gave at its conclusion in which he laid out his hopes for the emerging U.S. energy policy, rooted as it is in a rapid migration from fossil fuels to renewables.
Craig writes: (Here’s) my recap of the event appeared in this week’s business press. I tried not to repeat everything that the dailies were writing.
I respond: That’s truly excellent. And you identified a key point from Obama’s speech, i.e., his calling out the hypocrites: “It’s one thing if you’re consistent in being (in favor of the) free market,” Obama said. “It’s another thing if you’re free market until it’s solar that’s working, and people want to buy it, and suddenly you’re not for it any more. That’s a problem.”
In fact, I remember snorting with laughter when he said that, because I thought he was making a joke. A problem? That’s pretty charitable. How about a blatant exhibition of moral depravity? In any case, great going. Hope to see you again soon.
We Californians, living as we do in severe drought conditions, have a general sense that climate change is playing a role here. It’s not exactly rocket science that rising temperatures tend to evaporate more water, leaving less of it in the ground where it is available to our plants and animals.
