I appreciate you contributing to the debate. I actually think there is a third side of the argument, one that rejects the crony capitalism of the renewable energy movement (governments picking winners and losers rarely ends well) and one that also rejects Moore's Malthusian arguments (the sky is not falling). Julian Simon, Thomas Sowell and others long ago set the record straight on the "peak oil" "population bomb" crowds. See, e.g., .