Quote of the Day, December 16, 2009

"The longer we in the United States wait, the farther ahead China will be, and it will be harder for us to catch up. If we don't get our act together, we're going to be watching the capital, the businesses and the good-paying jobs end up someplace else. And 10 to 15 years from now, we're going to be saying, 'How did Shanghai become the Silicon Valley of clean energy?'"

-Commerce Secretary Gary Locke warns about the perils of losing the global clean energy race, quoted on NPR