It has been more than three decades since the 1970s oil embargo that stunned the nation. The effort to urgently solve America’s impending energy crisis was framed by our President then as the “moral equivalent of war,” but with the exception that “we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.” Many solid programs emerged from this along with great hope. But where are we today? It often seems that the road we’ve built to the future goes only as far as the eye can see, but no farther. More...