“Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals… except the weasel.” – Homer Simpson
Stephen Johnson implies he’s not the President’s puppet, but he won’t go quite so far as to say so under oath. These must be strange times when the head of the Evironmental Protection Agency refuses states the right to clean up their own air.
This issue has nothing to do with any of the excuses Johnson presents. It’s all about influence – if the states demand more efficient cars, US automakers will have to comply, and Bush is dragging his feet on their behalf. I am sympathetic to the view that markets should make more decisions than governments when it comes to business, but the market has already spoken. Now it’s time for leadership to hop on board.
Watch the video. If you only see one youtube clip this year that exposes Stephen Johnson as a complete weasel, make it this one.
– Eric Miller, millerec@etown.edu
Filed under: Energy
Ted.com has a pair of talks by Amory Lovins, author of Winning the Oil Endgame, and co-author of Natural Capitalism with Paul Hawken (author of another important text, The Ecology of Commerce). When you read these guys, or hear them talk about their ideas, you wonder why they aren’t running things down at the Department of Energy – but then you remember, they aren’t oil lobbyists.
Our environmental problems and our oil dependency walk hand-in-hand. Some folks have practical solutions that don’t involve invading Iran.
Watch Lovins here.
– Eric Miller, millerec@etown.edu
