Re: Economy by seanabradyhttp://sharedcopy.com/public/users/seanabrady/economy/comments.xmlsharedcopy.comhttp://sharedcopy.com/images/logo-sharedcopy.png?V0Sean BradyOp-Ed Columnist - 9/11 and 4/11 - Op-Ed - NYTimes.comhttp://www.nytimes.com.sharedcopy.com/2008/07/20/opinion/94b1751b56e698f22da27dc2ab0ae37b.html#16894Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:57:17 +0000 <span class="content comments_count_5 withoutphoto"
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>President Bush is well on his way to being remembered as the leader who wasted not one but two crises: 9/11 and 4/11. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. last week, according to the Energy Information Administration, was $4.11.<a href="http://r0.sharedcopy.com/4km5q#shcp0"
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>We don't have a "gasoline price problem." We have an addiction problem. We are addicted to dirty fossil fuels, and this addiction is driving a whole set of toxic trends that are harming our nation and world in many different ways.<a href="http://r0.sharedcopy.com/4km5q#shcp1"
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>I understand why consumers think we have a gasoline price problem - because they are immediately hurt by higher gas prices and the pump is where most people touch our energy system. They tend not to see the bigger picture. But that is why you have a president: to explain that and lay out a response.<a href="http://r0.sharedcopy.com/4km5q#shcp2"
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>read the speech that Al Gore delivered on Thursday to the bipartisan Alliance for Climate Protection. Gore, the alliance's chairman, called for a 10-year plan - the same amount of time John F. Kennedy set for getting us to the moon - to shift the entire country to "renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources" to power our homes, factories and even transportation. <a href="http://r0.sharedcopy.com/4km5q#shcp3"
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>It amazes me how inadequate his response has been. By hectoring the nation to simply drill for more oil, he has profoundly underestimated the challenges we face<a href="http://r0.sharedcopy.com/4km5q#shcp4"
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