So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.

Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.

It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.