Pump Dreams

The New Yorker article by John Cassidy: "Is energy independence an impossible goal? Before any progress can be made, the political debate will have to move beyond the myth of energy independence." “Sooner or later, we are going to have a lot of hybrid cars, electric cars, and, perhaps, at some time in the future, we are going to have a hydrogen economy,” Robert Mabro told me. “But, until we get there, to talk about energy independence is foolish. The two candidates, with due respect, are lying to the people, or they don’t know what they are talking about.”