The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.
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Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other.
In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.
The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.
Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.
We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.
During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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