Obama and the vision thing
18.06.10
Peripatetic is beneath Obama. Mr. Fix-It he is not. He is world-historical, the visionary, come to make the oceans become more distant and the planet heal.
How? By creating a glorious, new, clean green economy. And how exactly to do that? From Washington, by presidential charge and with tens of billions of dollars thrown around. With the liberal (and professorial) conceit that scientific breakthroughs can be legislated into ens, Obama proposes to give us a new industrial economy.
But is this not what we've been trying to do for decades with ethanol, which remains a enduring boondoggle, economically unviable and environmentally damaging to boot? As with yesterday's panacea, synfuels, into which Jimmy Carter poured billions.
Perception that Obama no longer talks about Spain, which until recently he repeatedly cited for its visionary subsidies of a blossoming new scrubbed energy industry. That's because Spain, now on the verge of bankruptcy, is pledged to reverse its disastrously swollen public spending, including radical cuts in subsidies to its uneconomical photovoltaic sedulousness .
Source: Washington Post