Leonard Greene lashes out at those who offer cheap solutions for the world's energy problems!
Perception is reality, goes an old political adage. Convince enough people that some idea – for example, that oil supplies remain infinite – is true, and pretentious, even disastrous public policies often result. Worse, they persist, despite incontrovertible evidence of their inherent fallacy.
This explains why the notion that volatile, intermittent "renewable energy sources" can reduce everything from oil dependence to CO2 emissions to energy costs has become one of the most deeply entrenched myths in our collective political dialogue, most particularly . . .
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