For the New York Times, a learning curve is when a person comes around to their notions. So imagine the paper’s joy that Sen. Barack Obama has come ’round to its views on energy and services its fears on global warming. Taking a swipe at Sen. McCain and boosting Obama, the paper gushes:

Mr. Obama also keeps moving up the learning curve on energy issues, whereas Mr. McCain seems to regress. This is important because energy problems are varied and complex, and solving them will require leaders with restless curiosity and an open mind.

And there’s this:

His present strategy is coherent and farsighted. Mr. Obama says he would limit carbon emissions with a strong cap and trade program, invest heavily in alternative energy sources, raise federal fuel-economy standards and require that 10 percent of America’s energy be generated by renewable sources by 2012. He would help Detroit develop more fuel-efficient cars with loans and tax credits, and — to the annoyance of some environmentalists — he rightly includes nuclear energy as part of the mix.

Meanwhile, the paper notes Mr. McCain’s support for nuclear energy — but then bashes him for not recognizing some costs associated with it. Somehow they can laud Obama on one hand and lash at McCain on the other.

More to the point: while the New York Times may love the notion of a “strong cap and trade system,” but our economy won’t. And piling tons of tax dollars into renewable energies — with costly Davis-Bacon Act government-set wage requirements — isn’t necessarily the answer.

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