Doug - thanks for sharing - personally I think the issue is that we are trying to do things too fast and that comes at a cost.  You can't just shut down all oil production overnight and switch to all EV's in a year.  I also see that sometimes lofty goals are set for hitting zero carbon emissions by set dates.  There is no perfect answer.  

"We can't wean ourselves from fossil fuel and still have cheap, plentiful energy. At least not today."

France couldn't do it in a day, either, when OPEC shut down French electricity in 1974.

It could, however, do it in only twelve (12) years - after Prime Minister Pierre Messmer, by parliamentary decree, ordered the construction of nuclear plants to replace the oil-powered ones upon which its electricity grid relied.

Frustrating, beyond belief, that we permit the idiocy of "renewable energy" to prevent us from achieving a goal so clearly and demonstrably achievable - especially when the electrification of transportation, and other fossil-fueled requirements on which a prosperous society depends, are just as achievable.