Admiral Rickover: The future of fossil fuels

Reader Dennis Brumm writes:
A friend of mine in Pennsylvania sent me a care package yesterday (from the era when newspapers still considered Americans literate), and in it he put a copy of an article he stumbled upon in a 1957 issue of The Christian Science Monitor. Amazing stuff below:

The Future of Fossil Fuels: An Intimate Message from Washington

By Neal Stanford

The Christian Science Monitor (Features Section), June 5, 1957

Speechmakers and speeches are a dime a dozen in this windy city, so a man has to say something particularly significant or be particularly provocative to get the attention of the press these days. One such man and one such speech are Admiral H. G. Rickover (1) and his recent remarks on

Admiral Rickover is the Navy