Gore steps up, now it's our turn

Al Gore, former vice-president and shoulda-been-president in 2000, but for the "activist" Supremes who took it upon themselves to decide the election for us, came out with a beautiful speech today, calling on us all to act now, or reap the consequences of procrastination, big time.

Check out a CNN video excerpt of the speech. He calls for a Kennedy-Moonshot-like 10-year national effort to end our addiction to oil with a real transformation to alternative energy and efficiency. Can it be done? Certainly not unless we put our national will to the task, and quickly. Will it be done? Not if the naysayers have their way, and stonewall the changes we need to begin working on.

One thing's for sure, a New Deal-type program building a new alternative energy system in this country would help the collapsing economy, putting people back to work, and would put America once again in a real leadership role. Not only that, it could begin the process of saving the civilization from total collapse, which could happen if we sit on our hands.