  Clean energy in California  On its own sunny path   See
article  Readers' comments       Many Americans refuse to
swallow the global warming Kool-Aid because we know a noxious
cocktail of scientific fact and enslavement of the public to an
overweening government bureaucracy when we smell one.   The
proper way to play energy policy in middle America is not by
leading with the global warming card, but by appealing to
national energy security. Chavez and Ahmadinejad are scarier
than rising sea levels to people that live 1000 miles from the
ocean.   The United States as a whole needs to take a page from
California's book. Republicans need to recognize that energy and
pollution is a problem and it needs to be solved. As for the
environmentalists, sacrifices need to be made in order to make
strides so if that means losing a species of rodent then so be
it.   California is doing a right thing by becoming more eco
friendly and making all of these regulations. Global warming and
pollution may not seem so critical at