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Unfortunately, it’s difficult to disagree with the Economist correspondent who wrote this about the energy proposal President Obama unveiled today:
It is hard to see his half-baked, reheated list of proposals as anything more than a reassurance to the environmentally-minded, and to Americans fretting about rising fuel prices, that the president feels their pain — unlike those nasty Republicans.
The proposal itself is pretty pedestrian, and in any case has zero chance of being approved by Congress. More details at the link, as well as from Ezra Klein and Stuart Staniford. Overall, it’s hard to work up the enthusiasm even for a lengthy blog post about this, let alone anything more.
