A budget proposal illustrates an administration's real goals, shorn of rhetoric and posturing.
So, despite Republican attacks on the Obama administration's renewable energy focus and the failures at Solyndra, Beacon, and possibly Fisker, the budget that Ptresident Obama issued Monday would continue to fund renewable energy and energy efficiency.
It is less enthusiastic about the loan-guarantee program. The budget request includes language on a "Clean Energy Standard" that seeks to generate 80 percent of the country's electrical power from solar, wind, nuclear and natural gas by 2035.
