reason to believe

I'm floating on air today, like a lot of other mommies who are nervously looking to their children's future, seeking some reason for hope.
Just one thing holds me back from breaking out the champagne. Will the Democrat win mean we'll actually get a saner energy policy and some chance of holding back climate change? That truly remains to be seen. A great disappointment for me last night was watching California's Prop. 87, which intended to raise money for alternative fuels, go down in flames. It wasn't just the YES folk being outspent -- they were devastatingly out-messaged. The proposition was characterized as a "gas tax" and a project of "starlets" (that last thanks to the snarky LA Times). Both the LA Times and SF Chronicle recommended a No vote, based partly on the notion that some of the money would go to profit alternative-fuel investments by backers. To put it bluntly, I think it's just stupefyingly wussy to bring up this "conflict of interest" when the oil companies are running federal energy policy.
But for just today -- let's float a little more...