*Boy, only in Austin. (For now, that is.)
*In other American solar news, newly freelanced everything-to-everybody Sarah Palin is doing her best to help God boost the economy and warm the planet:
Palin calls Obama energy plan a threat to economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who says she'll leave office at the end of the month, is already taking on one national issue, calling the Obama administration's plan to reduce greenhouse gases a threat to the U.S. economy.
In an op-ed piece in Tuesday's Washington Post, Palin attacks the administration's so-called cap-and-trade plan that would allow industrial sources to buy and sell pollution permits.
The plan, Palin writes, is "an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage."
She adds: "In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan."
Instead, the former Republican vice presidential nominee says: "We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil."
(((Maybe Sarah's gonna become the Creationist Al Gore now. I mean, Al was almost President and didn't manage it, just like her. And since he's so intimately linked to the climate crisis, his reputation grows every year. Nobody ever has to ask what Al Gore is doing with his spare time.)))
