Because political promises exist to be broken, no one would feel morally usurped if President-Elect Barack Obama ignored the energy program on which he and his running mate campaigned. According to early reports, however, energy will receive high priority when Obama and his vice-president, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, take office in January. The prospect is troubling.The Obama-Biden energy platform calls for heavy spending by government on uneconomic forms of energy in pursuit of three overall goals: energy independence, a “solution” to climate change, and the creation of 5 million “green” jobs associated with governmentally sponsored energy. These goals are, at bes...