Another Environment Note

Although he's had his problems, Arnold Schwarzenegger has one big advantage: he makes intelligent statements on issues. Hard on the heels of his comments on same-sex marriage (i.e., that he personally believes one man/one woman, but doesn't think his personal beliefs should be the law, which I found to be refreshing for its clarity, if for no other reason), come these comments on Bush's lack of global warming policy (I can't really call "do nothing" a policy):

SCHWARZENEGGER: (I)t just really means basically this administration did not believe in global warming, or they did not believe that they should do anything about it since China is not doing anything about it and since India is not willing to do the same thing, so why should we do the same thing?

But that’s not how we put a man on the moon. We did not say let everyone else do the same thing, then we will do it. We said we want to be the pioneers, we want to be out there in front. [snip]

Anyone that tells you that drilling, nuclear power, alternative fuels, fuel cells, solar, all of those things will bring down the price right now, I think is pulling wool over your eyes, because we know that all of those would take at least 10 years.

But that should not mean that we should not do those things, because here is the important thing. What’s the biggest problem in America? It’s not that we don’t have any ideas. It’s just that we are not consistent, that we have Jimmy Carter in the late ’70s that came in with a great energy policy, talked about shale oil exploration, giving tax credits for people that were investing in windmills and in solar and all of those things.

Schwarzenegger is the kind of Republican I can vote for, the kind that shows up in Illinois periodically (and the kind that gets elected here).

There's a full transcript at C&L.