The hardships from high fossil fuel prices that will be suffered by Americans and others around the world will be a humanitarian crisis that could have been avoided.
Genuine change will likely come only through muddling through at the state and local level. That kind of work will be instrumental in the creation of decentralized alternatives to our present political order.
The violator of his property is not the maverick company that pays the bribe, but the producer who violates his contract with the sponsor by accepting it.