Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

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

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.