If President Bush wants to make anything of his second term, he should make a quest for energy independence the moon shot of our generation.

Well, here it is.. The first new Friedman column behind the New York Times subscription wall.

Goodbye Tom! I refuse to pay $7.95 a month when there is only one columnist I regularly read there. I might pay $10 a year for "FriedmanSelect", if half of the money made it directly to Tom. All NYT's other content, I usually find via discussions taking place on the web. Those conversations all start to go dead today. The New York Times voice of commentary is about to get really, really, really soft and quiet.

Hopefully this will not last long. Thomas, if you can hear me, PUT UP A BLOG. PLEASE!!

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