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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.