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The Insanity of Importing Energy from Bloody Miles Away

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We’re returning to one of our core topics today: the role of energy in economic affairs. Which is also a current topic, with the cost of energy escalating. So what do we have to cover on this?*

Right. Okay, well, it’s been really obvious to me over the last fifty years that we’re going to have to adjust to a different way of doing things. The fossil-fuel bonanza, particularly oil and natural gas, has a finite lifespan. People could argue whether that is ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, or a hundred years. By any…

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