The American Energy Fantasy
25 January 2001 - 9:00am
Robert J. Samuelson argues that contradictions in the U.S. energy policy are responsible for California's energy crisis. "If you want to curb pollution and global warming, you can't have cheap power."
"We Americans want it all: endless and secure energy supplies; low prices; no pollution; less global warming; no new power plants (or oil and gas drilling, either) near people or pristine places. This is a wonderful wish list, whose only shortcoming is the minor inconvenience of massive inconsistency."
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Newsweek, October 3, 2005
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