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I am not sure that we would derive sufficient power from windmills to justify covering 30 states with fields of them, but he is a bonafied oil expert. Five years ago, ethanol seemed like a good idea as well.
Personally, I think the long term answer is nuclear power (fusion reseach should be accelerated immendiately) and fuel cell technology, but clearly, we are going to need to have several interim solutions.
IMHO, he should have hit immediate exploration and accelerated drilling ASAP much harder as an interim fix.
IIRC, LNG produces less energy per pound than gasoline, but it does burn slightly cleaner. This swap would have a secondary effect of running already elevated LNG prices further through the roof.
As an aside, Toyota just announced that they would be offering an option to put solar panels on the roof of the Prius. Net energy produced is barely enough to run the air conditioner.
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