Ideas from Aspen
The Aspen Times reports from the Aspen Ideas Festival the comments of former President Bill Clinton on alternative energy.
...it was his thoughts on global warming and energy independence that most resonated with a packed crowd Friday at Aspen's Harris Hall.The United States ought to recognize the future of clean energy not only as the means to avert climatic disaster but because it presents a huge, untapped opportunity for job creation and economic growth, Clinton said.
"We've got to make it a national security argument and we've got to make it a jobs argument and we've got to make the price of oil irrelevant," Clinton said, suggesting the country could create millions of jobs if alternative energy efforts received a fraction of the tax incentives that go to "old energy."
"This is a lay-down economically and it's nuts that we're not doing it"
Sounds like a part of the platform at Frontier PAC.
Leo Brown | July 9, 2005 | Comment on This Post (2 so far) |
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Leo-
Thanks, as always, for the mention.
You know, it's too bad that Bill Clinton was never in any sort of high-ranking position where he could have influenced energy policy. Maybe he should run for office sometime.
All snark aside, I think that when the Clintons start looking at Energy Independence as good politics, it bodes well for the Dems, at least rhetorically.
Posted by: Patton Price | Jul 9, 2005 6:10:16 PM
FYI - Clinton is basically talking about the Apollo Alliance project.
Posted by: Kari Chisholm | Jul 10, 2005 6:29:55 AM
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(and yes, we know that sometimes they're very, very wrong. Other times, they're right on.)
