The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that the elite economic interests that are holding them down are also feeding them a bunch of lies.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

Dirty energy is a finite resource; the more of it we use, the scarcer it becomes.

Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.

Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.

The people who seem to us to be a very tiny elite, far off and mysterious, actually live in a fairly big world. The way they look at the planet is like they're looking at an index card covered in supply routes. We protestors had imagined ourselves this huge threat. But we were at best bemusing. To the extent that the people inside did care, it was almost like we were paying them a compliment-it reinforced their sense of power.

I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.