UPDATE:\u00a0 A few days ago my headline was Home Star – yes.\u00a0 And I promised not to write any more on the energy policy subject.\u00a0 But the politicians have surprised us once again.\u00a0 Not even this stunted remainder of the energy bill managed to get to the vote.\u00a0 The oil clean up provisions were just too onerous for the oil friendly (and oil financed) folks.\u00a0 So – we keep waiting…<\/p>\n
Here’s the original post, when I still had some shred of faith in the system:<\/em><\/p>\n No matter what you think of Eliot Spitzer, once New York\u2019s fearless attorney general, he does write some sensible opinions.<\/p>\n Below are some extracts from his article in Slate magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n “\u2026a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, and here we have wasted two of them. The momentum for change will now fade into the haze of a long, hot summer. Many Americans hoped that the BP leak would finally focus us on generating an energy\/climate policy that would deal simultaneously with global warming and our dependence on fossil fuels. That hope has now totally disappeared. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced the end of meaningful reform in the energy arena<\/a>, and the politics after the midterm elections will make that issue even less palatable.”<\/p>\n