Bush's speech and the U.S. Government's cleantech commitment has a long way to go to equal that of Iceland or other forward thinking countries. And, it's easy to beat the public relations messenger. However, it should be remembered that the U.S. has invested many billion$ to protect free world access to the world's limited oil supply . Agree or disagree, we will need oil for a very long time before renewable resources can shoulder world power demands. Even though our deficit demonstrates a distinct lack of fiscal restraint, we only have so much money in the budget and we are spending more than our share to fight terrorism and build and secure Iraq and the Middle East. I believe Japan was the beneficiary of such a U.S. rebuilding program many years ago. Glad to see them shouldering the burden for the environment. I hope the next President can make this a bigger priority.

I blog more about cleantech related to Green PR at www.pilmerpr.com/blog .