Six words from Lester Goldstein

The energy sector, buoyed by high fuel prices, led stock market performers. (By Joe Marquette -- Bloomberg News)

Yesterday I wrote a very long entry linking a bunch of articles and ideas in response to President Bush's State of the Union speech and the acknowledgement(?) that the U.S. is "Addicted to Oil."

In a letter in today's New York Times, Lester Goldstein of Seattle is far more succinct that I was, writing:

President Bush got it almost right when he said in his State of the Union address that "America is addicted to oil." But what he should have said is "America is addicted to automobile use," to focus on the true problem.

Cartoon by Matt Wuerker.

Index Keywords: car-culture; energy