Thank you, President Obama for placing 'citizen anxiety' at the top of your list. From the pictures it is obvious people wanted to see you today.

President Barack Obama greets visitors in Mississippi during his fourth trip to the Gulf Coast since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in April / AP Source: AP

"In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come," Mr Obama told Politico.com.  (click title to entry - thank you)

I have no douibt the way we see the environment and our stewardship of it will take a sharper forcus.  Whatever happened to the Hydrogen Car, anyway?