hmmm... I'm gonna have to get used to this whole 'having-a-reasonable-person-as-president' thing.

To hell with clean coal. He knows it's a pipe dream, but good for getting votes. I honestly thought he was going to leave that as an unfulfilled election promise. Now I'll be hoping it will be an unfulfilled post-election promise.

As for the rest, yay!

holy crap 15 billion each YEAR!!! Yeehah over an entire decade thats like 1/5th of the amount invested in the Iraq War!!! Good to know they're so serious.

^ Most of what government would do for the environment is create & enhance regulation to protect it. Alos, at the risk of sounding like a conservative, we need businesses to work out the bulk of the solutions and there's only so much government money can or should do in creating and implementing the solutions.

That said, $15bn a year isn't chump change, especially when you consider that Bush would not only refuse to spend one thin dime to help the environment, he'd rather use $30bn a year to purchase and burn tires just to piss off environmentalists.

Canada, where are you on this eh? Lagging behind, and today's throne speech is not promising.