It's the economy, stupid

Why the US could turn green

The last time I was in the Six Pack Diner in Detroit, the car-workers guzzling their cholesterol were not opining about the melting polar ice-caps.

They are worried though, that their employers, Ford and General Motors, have failed to catch a new appetite for cars that consume less.

More clean Japanese cars means fewer jobs in Detroit.

The right spends so much time criticizing and trying to debunk environmental theories that they are hindering the future of the US economy. That, and they are too busy dancing with the oil companies to notice our oil dependency is a threat to national security.

I think the Dems would be wise to use this approach to environmental policy in the next election cycle. People don't respond to abstract threats, but they will respond to their light wallets.