The #1 source of greenhouse gases that we could easily get under control is from automobiles. Doing something effective to reduce auto emissions to zero in 10 years would do more for the environment than just about anything else our President could do.

First, the government must mandate emissions free vehicles and no, it is not okay to compromise AGAIN with the forces of predatory wealth and allow the auto companies more time and to market their inferior hybrid vehicles. We need plug in electric vehicles at reasonable prices and in large quantities. Period. Get this simple idea through Congress in the first hundred days as the President's top priority on the environment in combination with the second item on this list.

Second, make a genuine, long-term committment to defeating terrorism and cleaning up the environment by funding a massive mass transit building program. Also, an equally ambitious program for assisting local transit authorities with operating costs of existing systems which are chronically underfunded and not well maintained. Along with emission free vehicles, cities with the infrastructure for alternative transporation modes will reduce both greenhouse gases and our dependence upon foreign oil. Frankly, it can be done in numerous ways, but I would take half the proposed highway and road money being proposed and put it in mass transit instead. It is an initiative long overdue and desperately needed. If we want to be free from our dependence on foreign oil, especially arab oil in a decade, then we need to make the appropriate investments now and in a massive way. If Obama's people follow the same barely-better-than-the-Republicans course the Clinton White House followed on mass transit we're going to be just as dependent on foreign oil in a decade as we are today and we won't have made any progress on climate change.

So, the big items don't need to necessarily be all that complicated or difficult as long as they aren't mixed up with a whole lot of other legislative mumbo jumbo.