By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few years later if production does not rise much-and will decline thereafter.

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.