Green is the new Red, White and Blue

Very interesting interview with Tom Friedman on Fresh Air yesterday.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5311748

I think you should listen to the whole thing, but if you don't have time, move the cursor to about the last tenth of the interview and stream from there. Friedman talks about how Cheney and the oil folks have staked out energy "reality" by saying conservation is nice, but real men know we will need oil for the foreseeable future. Friedman then excoriates this position as playing into the hands of despots in Iran, Sudan, Venezuela, and so on, and that moving aggressively away from oil now will set the US up as the vanguard of alternative energy, which no doubt will be the industry of the 21st Century, keeping us economically relevant, oil independent, thus safer from the nutjobs who own the oil, and cleaner and greener. Good for the economy, defense and environment. Green is the new Red, White and Blue.