• Oil's a national security risk.
• Global warming is happening.
• Cars are the problem.
• Ultra-light cars would help (and Amory Lovins is cool).
• Cellulosic biofuels would help (and corn ethanol's a boondoggle).
• Japanese hybrids are best; plug-in hybrids would be better.
• Hydrogen fuel cell cars are cool, but 20 years out.
• We need lots of electricity, and right now most of ours comes from coal.
• Solar is cool.
• Wind is cool.
• The feds subsidize oil but toss sporadic pennies to renewables.
• Efficiency is cool. (See: Texas Instruments computer-chip factory in Richardson, Texas.)
• China may be putting more effort toward sustainability than us; they're paying attention to William McDonough.
• William McDonough is cool. Cradle to cradle is cool.
• "This is not your parents energy crisis" -- but we have to tools to meet the challenge.

Not bad for 45 minutes!

This is how it ends:

With just a little leadership from Washington -- smart subsidies and regulations, consistently applied -- we could make plug-in hybrids, wind, ethanol, and solar so much more competitive with oil, right now, today. But it takes a new way of thinking, an understanding that being green is no longer some high-minded, vaguely unpatriotic hobby for tree-hugging girly-men. Living, thinking, and acting green is the most geostrategic, tough-minded, and patriotic thing we can do today. Green, my fellow citizens, is the new red, white, and blue.

Finally, a respected mainstream pundit has condensed the bright green case down to its nuts and bolts and presented it in a folksy, optimistic, non-threatening format.

I salute you, Mustache of Understanding! Let's hope you've started a trend.