On May 29, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
In other words, the failure here is in the scientific community,
not in the national political leadership.
I suspect this is not entirely true. Some of the failure may be due
to lobbyists and political dogma. I doubt a reasonable energy policy
is possible soon. My solution to this old problem was to get it
permanently as far out of the hands of politics as possible:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/LegacyPlan.pdf
If it had been implemented, even on the small basis suggested, it
would have been cooking along these days in high gear, due to the
present high price of oil.
Regards,
Horace Heffner
