Governments have almost NEVER been involved in breakthrough technology. NASA is an exception, but even it's contributions were mainly from an unrestrained civil sector, not the government. Generally, the more regulations on research and industry that are imposed, the fewer discoveries are made. Kerry's promises of a government sponsored utopia are, therefore, nothing more than a few magic beans..

We could be energy independent, or nearly so, as the administration wants, if we were able to disengage from Kerry's "tree hugging" friends. We have a lot of oil in Alaska, yet they prefer to force us to continually rely on Mid East oil, instead of our own; plus they get the benefit of blaming Bush..

In fact, if you look carefully at Kerry's "solutions" to problems, they consist of:
1. my opponent is always wrong.
2. if I'm elected, I'll invest in a magic wand that will make everything better.

Thank G-d most Americans weren't fooled by his fantasies.

It has been part of every Democratic stump speech since.

Dream jobs making the tools of the "green" revolution. All our jobs will be above average AND environmentally friendly.

Talk about a feel good twofer!

I think Bush has committed the classic blunder that does not involve Asia or Sicilians. The need to be perceived as "doing something".

For Bush, "doing something" translates into a goody bag full of subsidies for technologies and fuels (ethanol/methanol/biomass) that have been weighed by the marketplace and found wanting.

What he really needs to do is give the nation a lesson in economics.