Obama climate change and energy policy still sucks

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5. There is hope

CO2 emissions in the US have dropped to a level they were in 1990.

This is because aging coal burning power plants have been taken offline, natural gas is becoming competitive with coal, we had a mild winter last year and gasoline usage has gone down.

All those factors, together have reduced our CO2 emissions.

Obama has put in place higher MPG goals for car. That will reduce gasoline usage. The market may end up going more with natural gas than coal to fuel power plants.

But we still need to get emissions down in the rest of the world. That remains a challenge as China and India's power production increases. We need to get them to look to alternatives. China has looked at the idea. They have ramped up production of solar panel for the market but we need to get them to reduce their coal usage.

But it is disappointing to hear Obama's speech on putting Climate on the back burner. I was shocked when I heard it since he was enthusiastically looking at our electric cars at the last Washington DC Auto Show.