But energy is not scarce. It falls on the ground and is blown over the surface of the planet, every day.

This is not energy scarcity, it's stupidity abundance.

@isotopp

Without wishing to contradict anyone here - this oil crisis is the sort of thing which intelligent people have been predicting. Every facet of it has been gamed out.

Matthew Lynn is a detective, mostly - very much worth the read. The Net Zero Brigade, of which I count myself a paid up member in full - might not want everyone to suffer needlessly, but then again, it's not as if we, the NZB haven't been warning, however unpleasantly, of its arrival.

Since the 1970s.