Daniel Yergin’s Talk on Energy Policy

To make good on my promise to write something about Daniel Yergin’s talk the other night at UCSB, he’s obviously a very bright guy whose travels and studies are quite impressive, and the talk was interesting to a point. But what I found shockingly absent was a single word on any of the controversial issues that surround our world energy policy.  Can’t we at least mention the idea that Big Money and politics are conspiring to preserve the status quo and make the migration to renewables extremely difficult and slow?  How about an update on those 7000 lobbyists who work for the oil industry?

I say I was shocked, but let’s not be too dramatic here.  His clients are oil companies.  Wouldn’t it have been even more surprising had the reverse been true?