One way or another, it's not going to last. But we're choosing the maximum pain route.

In my speeches and discussions of energy policy after the two "oil shocks" of the seventies, i used the metaphor of baseball. We've swung and missed at two hard fastballs.  Then i would switch metaphors, and say, with two strikes, we can learn the easy way, or we can learn the hard way, but we're going to learn.  Now comes the hard curveballs.

I'm a good hitter with two strikes, but it doesn't at all seem as if this civilization has the brains or the balls to do the right thing.  so we will continue to develop better turbines, laser-cutting for cheaper solar cells, and better finance packages to get it all done.  Enough?

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