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

Our energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have-and it's cheaper not to. U.S. oil dependence can be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies that create wealth, enhance choice, and strengthen common security.

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

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

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.

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

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