To reduce oil intake, Bush’s energy plan can only do so much

Unfortunately, although the president’s focus on the problem in his State of the Union address was helpful, his suggestions for action will not alone solve the problem.
As foreign policy expert Michael Mandelbaum points out in his new book, “The Case for Goliath,” the Manhattan Project and others were developed entirely outside the commercial economy. A new energy system for the US, he argues, must be fully integrated into that economy. “New energy technologies, to replace existing ones,” he writes, “will have to be profitable, just as extracting, refining, and selling oil are.”

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