The U.S. will absolutely not be a superpower if it doesn't get caught up in the green energy movement. The W. Bush 8-year hiatus in energy development in this current decade has been both a losing short-term and losing long-term strategy. Friedman's current motto is, "Change your leaders, not your light bulbs."
He adds, "I'll put it this way: Leaders write rules. Rules shape markets. Markets give you scale. If we have the wrong leaders-leaders who are in no way sensitive to the green necessities-we're just not going to go anywhere."
The new U.S. government needs "[t]o think big. Swing for the fences. We need a carbon tax, cap and trade, some kind of price signal, a national renewable energy portfolio standard."
If General Motor did it once-i.e. jumped ahead of the Japanese in the 1980s and 1990s on low-emission technology- DETROIT or others in America can do it again.
However, the bad management and bad management practices must be cleared out in Detroit and elsewhere, i.e. all places where 19th and 20th century leadership styles no-longer function.
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