For the past forty years the term Energy Crisis has been a recurring staple in the headlines of US media. It is recurring because it always somehow goes away for a while and the American public manages to convince themselves that there really is no tomorrow. We have had full an adequate warning of the problem since the oil shocks of the 1970s. Yet we have done very little to change or reduce our dependency on fossil fuels. Our economy and our lifestyles are stuck to them like a tar baby.
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