how does a push for energy efficiency now, money aside, just work politically with the president having so many other goals on the table, hammering out a budget with republicans. getting a comprehensive energy reform. gun control. does this push diminish any of those other initiatives? or does it get lost in the mix? i think it gets lost in the mix. not that the president won t get anything he wants out of this but i think that this is not his top priority. it is one that will have to be sub himated to some of those other things. the budget deal, the gun control and immigration reform. so i think it is something that he wants to get attention for. i think he wants to tell folks who care about energy alternatives that he is with them. but whether or not this ends up a big push for him, i don t know. republicans will argue that all that stimulus money went out to alternative energy forms and