Peak oil is rapidly becoming the elephant in the living room of modern American politics. Can we begin a reasoned national discussion of the end of the petroleum, or is Weimar America headed for a disastrous repetition of the politics of scapegoating and avoidance?
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Gore is like Moses, who has gone to the mountaintop to receive God's 11th commandment that thou shalt not burn fossil fuels. Unfortunately, our civilization was founded on the abundant energy fossil fuels offer. We can not simply undo that dependency in a decade as we near the top of a growth curve that was made possible by burning coal, oil and natural gas.
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