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To actually write that this is "a profound choice between two world views", shows an amazing lack of intellectual capacity. Framing the so called "debate" in such polarizing terms suggests there are no other solutions available. Or Leonard, like Obama, would rather complain and finger point, rather than come up with real solutions. We can't drill for oil AND develop alternative sources? The concept of multiple approaches to the energy problem is academically too taxing to consider? Alternative energy research would mysteriously end if we allowed off shore drilling? That's a helluva prediction to make. Based on what?
We're sitting on the largest coal deposits in the world, which could be converted to oil; refuse to drill into known oil deposits, refuse to build nuclear power plants; and then wring our collective hands over wind farms. Meanwhile China is drilling 60 miles off the coast off Florida! ........I guess luddites like Leonard won't be happy until we have a third world economy and are all gathered around communal campfires. After all, to paraphrase Churchill, "Socialism IS the equal sharing of misery"
