If the president remains committed to Making Work Pay and clean energy investment, he will probably have to agree to equivalent spending reductions elsewhere, because fiscal moderates within his own party will insist. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
The article presents a conflict, which is very real for Obama-ites, between dirty energy producers and would-be regulators without addressing the PR/Lobbying blitz by Big Coal, nor the stimulus that would result for millions of workers in new clean renewable energy. The back-story of the politics, economics, and even health consequences would flesh out a routine account of political conflict.
a Gallup survey released last week revealed that “for the first time in Gallup’s 25-year history of asking Americans about the trade-off between environmental protection and economic growth, a majority of Americans say economic growth should be given the priority, even if the environment suffers to some extent.”
Fear is afoot in the land.
Fear may drive short term economics to win out if the populace isn't educated and mobilized to support a conversion to a clean energy economy.