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Posted on August 28, 2008

By Joseph Romm I interviewed the billionaire conservative oilman for Salon. My article and the interview are now online here. My goal was not to trip him up with the flaws in his plan, but just to explore some of the key issues, especially the role of government in making it happen. Talking to him it is clear he is very genuinely concerned about the impoverishment we face on our current laissez-faire energy path -- a $10 trillion transfer of wealth from Americans to the rest of the world over the next decade, ending with $300 a barrel oil. But I simply couldn't get him to acknowledg...

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