Things are really looking up...

Several interesting things to note:

Paul Rogers in the Mercury News writes about Arnold's underperforming "Hydrogen Highway"

Zach Coile in the Chronicle has a piece on the House's decision to ban offshore drilling off the Sonoma coast.

Elizabeth Douglass in the Times notes the operational difficulties being incurred by the much ballyhooed Pacific Ethanol as a result of rising corn and construction prices.

So hydrogen is a bust (so far), the already heavily subsidized ethanol is having a hard time making a go of it, offshore drilling resides with nuclear and LNG imports on the "banned list".... things are really looking up.