Is the energy movement gaining steam?

Julie Carr Smyth, Statehouse correspondent for the Associated Press*, reports today that Gov. Strickland is pressing for an energy bill that includes mandatory thresholds for the use of alternative energies, including clean coal.

"'It’s the spirit of our time,' said Strickland, a Democrat who led his party’s resurgence last year in a political swing state controlled for more than a decade by Republicans. 'We cannot, and I just pray to God that we don’t, let these opportunities pass us by... The status quo does not result in things staying the way they are,' he said. 'The status quo results in things getting increasingly worse in comparison to the rest of the world."

The Ohio Republic and Gov. Strickland on the same page? At least on this issue we are. Like the Governor, I just pray to God that we don't let these opportunities pass us by, either; like too many others we have passed up in the last 25 years.

* As posted by the Canton Repository.