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James Schlesinger, who was the nation’s first secretary of energy, had a grim analysis of the nation’s current energy predicament this morning at an energy summit in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. Schlesinger, now a senior adviser to Lehman Brothers and chairman of the nonprofit engineering organization Mitre, predicted that energy prices would continue to rise and declared that the United States would never see energy independence as long as it depended on the internal combustion engine. Excerpts from his remarks:
We regularly hear that we must ensure that energy supplies are abundant, affordable and secure
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