"There's this notion that energy should be free," he says. "We've never had to think about it, at least not in our era. The point I made in my book from 2004 [High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis] is the same point I make now: economics was invented without thinking about energy. So here you have this supreme irony: a system called economics - a flow of money - is really about the flow of energy, but it never mentions energy. It hasn't got a clue about it."

Julian Darley (Post Carbon Institute)

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