The Next U.S. President Will Be the Chauncey Gardiner of Energy

U.S. politicians focus primarily on renewables, ignoring the continuing importance fossil fuels have to the global economy.

It is certain that the United States is in for a shock in energy prices and especially in energy supplies


The candidates have mentioned energy occasionally, and my own anthology of their preciously rare pronouncements contains only the trite mantras of conservation (something that has never played any major role in U.S. total energy demand), and the most unrealistic