The politics of energy had taken on a "down the rabbit hole" semblance before this... Now? To say it has taken a turn for the surreal is surely a comical use of understatement.
And then, just when you think the man was nothing but a befuddled mistake, he comes out with this:
"I have no idea what new energy sources are going to be available, what technologies might drive down the price of renewable energies," he said. "What we can predict is that the availability of fossil fuel is going to be diminishing; that it's going to get more expensive to recover; that there are going to be environmental costs that our children, ... our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren are going to have to bear."WTF??!! That was the most cogent, concise, and lucid commentary to come from a public official, let alone the mealy mouthed divinations we are usually tortured with from sitting U.S. presidents.
Just goes to show you... a man lives long enough he's likely to see and hear just about everything. Too bad the administration cannot summon good sense like that at will.