In 10 years while T.Boone is paying 500% more for the wind turbines from China then he is today because of energy and demand (we cannot produce them here because the cost would be twice as much),and there is $25.00/gallon diesel fuel for the equipment to erect them.

Gasoline will be $30.00 gallon, not just because of crude supply but also the reduction in gasoline refining overseas for export. Local refining will not meet 50% of demand as refinieries will be closed because of constrained credit markets and low refining margins will drive companies under.

There is a huge shortage of steel for the wind towers because metallurgical coal is $1,000.00 a ton because of global demand and huge increases in recovery costs and transportation will add 50% more, the blade factories yards are full of product they cannot ship to the site because the transportation system will have collapsed to where only food and durables are transported regularily, we will be at 10-12% renewables from all sources (this is based on demand growth eating away at installed capacity and older facility retirements).

Oil distillate supplies will be gone and with them all the products derived from them, like Lithium/Ion Electric Car Battery Casings, tires, high impact plastics, modern textiles and medical supplies.

It is not Just the OIL

Natural Gas will be $200 bbl equivilent, since we have very few LNG capable ports and developed sources in NA will be playing out, old T.Boone will be putting all the excess over home heating into his company vehicles tanks.

Electricity from wind will be 4.00+ Kwh just as 20% of the population turns to electric heating because of the NG prices. As the implemtation costs of renewables rise exponentially so will the consumer price.

The oil and gas from the OCS and Alaska will arrive along with coal to liquids and Nuclear Power to power the rest of the process which will play out over 40 more years.

Then we retire the remaining fossil fuels by capping the wells, tearing down the pipelines, closing the mines and Nuclear Plants as we implement more and more renewables.

That is how we get there from here. It will hurt bad and probably bring the country to its knees in a economic sense, with the costs of social services bringing taxation to levels undreamed of, before we recover about 1/2 the way (25 years) through the process.

On the environment front we are going to have to accept that we are going to burn fossil fuels for 50 more years in some form. Accept it and move on.