I’m on a conference call, listening to Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE, chat with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, about energy.

I don’t have a recording, but I tell you, Immelt sounds more and more like a standard greenie — he’s stumping for a national RPS, 10-year extension of renewable tax credits, and a price on carbon. And he keeps insisting that it’s not particularly political. “Energy is easy,” he says.

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Then again, Al Gore (who apparently is also in the room) asked him directly about what’s blocking this stuff in Congress, and he basically dodged. “Partisanship,” blah blah.

There’s a word, Jeff. It starts with an R. Try saying it!

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Also, Immelt says if he had to list the first five things he’d invest in, it would be: renewables first, power storage second, natural gas third, big baseload like clean coal fourth, and conservation fifth. Flip that last one up to first, and you could do worse.