My friend Jason Kottke is live-blogging at the New Yorker Conference.  Here are his two standout points:

1. Newsom talked about building filling stations for electric cars that relied on exchanging batteries instead of plugging in and waiting for your car to charge. You don’t need to own your particular battery.

2. In SF, he’s hoping to exchange the payroll tax for a carbon tax. In his words, tax a bad thing (carbon use) instead of taxing a good thing (jobs). That way, the incentives are in the right place…people aren’t penalized for working but are penalized for using excessive amounts of carbon.

Newsom for President. 

Whatever Gavin Newsom is selling, I’ll take ten (kottke.org)