Ferdinand E. Banks

Obama Creates an Energy Policy Troika

Well what do you know. I had planned to write some shot-caller in Washington and suggest my good self as Energy Secretary, but it appears that I am too late. Of course, to my way of thinking, if the Energy Secretary is a renewable energy fanatic then there might still be a place for me somewhere in Washington, sooner or later, because I can't think of anything more absurd than to base US energy policy on a sub-optimal expansion of renewable energy, while downplaying nuclear energy and 'up- playing' energy independence - assuming that there is such a thing, which may not be the case..

I wonder what is going on in California these days. I remember a conference that I attended in which an up-market California physicist came up with some looney-tune ideas about electric deregulation. Of course, going back a few centuries, the weather at Fort Ord wasn't so bad.