On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
>> Yes it could launch, if not a "boom," a new secular upswing
>> (Kondratiev Wave). If its done right. But it won't be. Not with
>> Obama committed to corn-ethanol, more drilling, nuclear power,
>> "clean" coal (all representing diversion of the real resources that
>> would be indispensable for that sort of green-energy program) and
>> with any form of a carbon tax off the table. For a technological
>> and structural revolution in the energy economy--nothing less would
>> do the job--total fiscal commitment and rigorous economic planning
>> are the starting gate. That just ain't where Obama is going.
>
> Maybe. Maybe not. We just don't know. Well, I guess you do, but I
> don't.
Well, in a rigorous sense I too just don't know. In the same sense that you and I just don't know whether Obama will put Bush on trial....
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos