Join me Tuesday for moving beyond oil - San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

The big news, of course, was President Obama’s decision not to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. It was politically brave on the president’s part, but it’s also a huge symbol of the growing recognition that what’s good for Big Oil has nothing to do with what’s good for America and that the sooner we can separate oil and state, the better.

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It’s not just environmentalists who understand this — it’s everyone from labor (the United Steelworkers, United Auto Workers, and Transport Workers unions were just some of those that opposed the pipeline) to Nebraska ranchers to young people concerned about reckless climate-disrupting carbon pollution.

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It’s fantastic that we’ve stopped what once looked like an unstoppable pipeline, but let’s not forget that if we really want to move our country beyond oil, we need to do more than just stop bad things — we have to move forward on good things, too. Fortunately, this year the Obama administration also plans to make one particularly good thing happen: setting a new average fuel-economy standard of 54.5 mpg for cars and trucks by 2030.

Join me Tuesday for moving beyond oil - San Francisco Chronicle (blog)