Think of "using dollars" as "spending gasoline" [pdf]
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Other than that, uh, I guess he understands more than the average hippie? not saying much, if you ask me. He also seems to ignore that energy is usually quite cheap compared to human labor; I dono about you, but yeah, a lot of my expenses are energy related, but a lot of them are labor, as well.
No mention of nuclear energy. Because it makes too much sense to think about nuclear, one assumes.
"Depending on who is doing the accounting, on the decommissioning and storage realities, and how the next four or five Chernobyls are going to pan out, I strongly feel that nuclear power will end up to be something between a staggering energy sink and a minor and temporary source that clearly was not worth the monumental hassles."