The United States & Sustainable Energy: Charting a New Course
Article from: OGEL 1 (2006), in Renewable Energy
Introduction
The hugely influential, best selling author and multiple Pulitzer prize winner Thomas Friedman, writes skillfully about energy, and is not given to hyperbole. Writing recently in the New York Times, Friedman stated that one of the best speeches on the need for charting a new United States course on energy was delivered in March by Senator Richard Lugar, the Republican Chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In an epochal speech of Churchillian resonance, Lugar charts a new energy course for the United States, arguing that the United States has ...