Last week, Vice President Al Gore presented the American people with a challenge: meet 100% of our electricity needs through renewable energy within 10 years. Al would be the first to acknowledge this is not a minor task. And yet it is an urgent one, a challenge that will...

"Conceptually the battle is over, the peakists have won," declared Dr. James Schlesinger in his opening remarks at the 2007 ASPO-Ireland Peak Oil Conference last September. While it was nice to hear America's first energy czar acknowledge that peak oil was finally getting the attention of mainstream media and the...