Fossil Fuels

Most Americans are now convinced that climate change is real because dramatic evidence keep piling up - searing heat waves, multiyear droughts, record-setting wildfires, unprecedented tornadoes and Biblical floods.

For far too long, we have been hooked on oil, and we continue to pay a terrible price for it economically, politically, militarily, and environmentally.

This weekend, as 10,000 energetic, bright, young people are converging on Washington, DC, for PowerShift 2011, a geezer* is waging an all-out assault on their future. Eighty-two-year-old Texas fossil-fuel-pushing …

Whatever the outcome, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be transformed.