Mandil has been saying so many contradictory things that I'm no longer sure what his actual positions are.

I used to know him when he was the Director for energy at the Ministry of Industry in France in the mid-90s. He had a clear vision of energy policy in my memory (maybe I was more impressionable then). He moved to GDF, failed at getting the top job over there, and jumped to the IEA, in a fairly typical carrer for a top French civil servant, but his positions on energy have become increasingly confusing to me.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes