In what the president probably hopes is not a repeat of last year’s Social Security reform initiative, Dubya and
his cabinet will be making stops at several companies involved in alternative energy research to push the energy agenda
that was presented during last month’s State of the Union address.
It thankfully doesn’t appear as if there will
be much talk about switch
grass. Wisconsin-based battery maker Johnson Controls is on Bush’s itinerary, as is Michigan’s United Solar
Ovonic – a company that has some rather deep history in the field of alternative-energy cars (it provided batteries for
the EV1, and was a pioneer in NiMH battery technology). Needless to say, the promise of decreased energy
dependence and job growth will play well right now in the midwest.