Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

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

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

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.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

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.