Looks like spill baby spill.

I wish Obama would increase the federal gas tax a bit, to discourage the use of oil. Hard to believe that the gas tax hasn’t gone up since Clinton raised it from 13.4 cents / gallon to today’s 18.4 cents / gallon.

It may be that nuclear energy is less harmful than other forms, and should be encouraged more. I think China is building 155 new nuclear plants, and we’re scheduled to maybe start on 2.

Of course, more solar and wind energy would be great.

I believe last year’s stimulus had quite a bit of money to update the country’s energy-delivery grid, but I don’t know what progress has been made on that.