As I mentioned last week, JK was in Texas on Friday, apparently raising a little hell.

The Houston Chronicle reports, "He sounded like he knew Houston's dirty secret when he said, 'Here I am in the fourth-largest city in the country, and there is gridlock in most roads almost all day.'"

I wonder if he read the passage from This Moment on Earth in which he wrote:

In Texas, TXU Corporation, the state's largest power company, is planning to build eleven new coal-fired plants. Rather than acting as responsible corporate citizen, however, TXU is rushing to build the traditional plants before any federal regulations on CO₂can be put in place. If they succeed, the corporation's top executives could then argue that as preexisting facilities their plants must be grandfathered against regulation. As a result, Texas, already the largest single polluter among the fifty states - and by itself the tenth largest polluter of CO₂ in the world - could add about 78 million tons of CO₂ per year to the atmosphere. Given what we know of the science of global warming, this is immoral, if not insane.

On second thought, I'm sure he didn't - it's not like a bunch of book store patrons build coal-fired plants for fun on their days off.

Senator Kerry will be promoting the TMOE tome in Philadelphia today, so we can look forward to even more squee from the road tomorrow. Until then, Kerry On!