Barrett,

Thanks, I hope that helps somewhat. The problem with energy is that people are trying to push their own agendas rather than looking at the numbers and realizing what a huge problem there is. There's room for everybody to contribute, and a need for everybody to contribute, probably as much as they possibly can, if we are going to solve a 13 million barrels a day problem. That's why my answer to all the, "Do you favor X or Y?" questions is always "Both." We can get there with "all of the above"; we cannot without. We need all the "drill baby drill" and all the wind and all the solar and all the nuke and all the conservation and all the biofuels and all of everything else that we can get. The problem is simply that big.

The other thing people don't realize that we may have good green energy sources, but none of them are very good substitutes for oil--at least not for now. Windmills and solar and insulation reduce our need for fossil energy, and that's a good thing; but they don't reduce our need for oil, at least not until the electric car is on the road in a big way.

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