Meanwhile, on the Sugartop Candy Mountain

Come on Thomas L Friedman, you know that the same energy policy that works in Denmark wouldn't work in the US. We're too spread out in the rural areas for us to ride bikes to work ("why yes, I would love to ride my bike 50 miles a day with a 300 lb hay trailer hitched to the back"), also no one likes radical change save for the Danes (change forestalls the impossibly high inevitability of suicide. Number 27 in the world, WOOooo!)

Yeah, but still, some of their ideas are pretty awesome. Especially their use of waste heat, the only problem is the insane amounts of spending on infrastructure that this would require, and the fact that increasing gas taxes (the only conceivable way to pay for these expenditures) is political suicide in the best of times, and a way to get assassinated in these times.