We need more energy to maintain our lifestyle and to provide a dignified life for the large human contingents who still live with very little. Living in a more civilized world demands more energy, more investments and higher costs, not less.
Before the automobile, people and goods were transported in carts or on horseback. Try to imagine yourself at that time in a large and rich North American, or even European, city, with thousands of horses and mules in circulation.
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