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October 5, 2008 - 6:40pm
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Inslee mentioned as possible cabinet choice
By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com ReporterA weekend report from Congressional Quarterly, the newspaper that focuses on Washington, D.C. politics, mentioned Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Bainbridge Island) as one of three leading candidates for secretary of the interior should Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) be elected president.
Inslee, who has held his 1st District seat since 1999, has made environmental issues a priority of his tenure, and recently wrote a book on alternative energy.
CQ, who also brought up Rep. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-Mont.) as potential choices, recognizes Inslee's record, and says his selection would be a boon to environmental groups, even if it might cause some dismay among oil companies.
See what CQ had to say about Inslee below.
During six terms representing suburban Seattle, he has become one of the leading liberal voices in the House on energy and natural resources issues. He is a strong advocate for environmental protections on public lands and has opposed controversial proposals to allow more logging in national forests. So for environmental groups he would be an attractive pick. Advancing renewable sources of energy is a top priority of his, and Inslee would mark a clear reversal from Bush administration priorities to aggressively expand oil and gas development, and mining. But he would be a controversial choice who could alienate conservatives and Western energy producers.
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I am a PhD research meteorologist who, as a UCLA chem student 40 years ago, saw the upward trend in CO2 data from Mauna Loa Observatory. It said to me that the global warming signal would probably rise unambiguously above the background noise in about 30 years. Unfortunately for all of us, I happened to be spot-on.
More recently, clueless that I'd been watching Jay Inslee grilling oil futures speculators and industry spokesmen on C-Span, I ran into him at Dulles Airport and mistook him for a participant at the conference I'd just attended. To my embarrassment, he quickly straightened me out. Whereupon, we quickly segued to find that we shared an abiding concern for issues such as global warming and national energy policy.
So I then read his book, Apollo's Fire, (co-authored by Bracken Hendricks). It is an up to date, deeply patriotic, and very informative book, which underscores Congressman Inslee detailed understanding of our current energy policy, potential alternatives, and how it must be improved.
As former CIA director James Woolsey maintains, freedom from imported oil is vital to our national security as well as to our overall economy. Regardless of the true extent of our domestic and offshore oil reserves, it is apparent to me that the single, fastest way to effect the massive change required is to erect the wind farms and build the grid infrastructure needed to distribute cheap wind energy ASAP, to power the next generation of plug-in hybrid electric cars that will become available, starting next year.
If we do this quickly, the bulk of our money, jobs, and consequent geopolitical staying power will remain in this country, to reverse the chronic squandering of human resources and capital that we are undergoing now.
To understand these issues in more detail and how they interconnect in complex ways, I recommend that you read Apollo's Fire, by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks, and other books like his.
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