Obama said last week that his top priority as president is to launch an Apollo-style national project to build a new, clean-energy economy.

Consumer spending drove the economy over the past two decades, fueled on easy credit (and actual fuel, straight down the gullets of our gas-guzzling cars).  But that model has shown its inherent, untenable flaws, and Obama has promised to replace it with what Joe Klein of Time called “a new economic turbocharger.”

“There is no better potential driver that pervades all aspects of our economy than a new energy economy,” Obama said.  “That’s going to be my No. 1 priority when I get into office.”

Central to his effort is his plan to create 5 million green jobs.

It’s morning in America.