Tom Friedman on Fresh Air

On NPR this week, Terry Gross talks to Tom Friedman, who’s promoting his new book: Hot, Flat & Crowded.

Under the lead, Thomas Friedman’s Argument for ‘Geo-Greenism’, they cover TF’s disgust with John McCain, who …

a) didn’t show up for any of 8 different Senate votes for the PTC; and

b) voted for this summer’s gas tax holiday

[It makes McCain's recent embrace of 'Change' rhetoric sound insincere.]

TF also expresses disappointment that Obama’s energy strategy ’seem like he’s checking off boxes’.

Terry asks who are the enablers in the US addiction to oil, and I was disappointed to hear TF mention first the oil companies — a standard & weak victimization line, as if we are their hostages (which I do not believe to be the case) … the alternative energy revolution will come from incentives (leadership) and innovation (either Danish or American can-do-ism) together and it doesn’t matter what the oil companies do — apart from the world oil market’s pricing mechanisms). And when the people want to change behavior, lobbying goes only so far.

There’s more. Enjoy …