As of today, Bill Richardson has become the boldest, most visionary Democratic presidential candidate on climate and energy policy. (John Edwards is a close second.) No politician from either party has put forward a plan that comes closer to being a realistic response to the energy shortages and climate chaos heading our way.

Here's the heart of Richardson's speech today:

We need a man-on-the-moon program to end this addiction, this hemorrhage.  But we need it...