If implemented, these revolutionary ideas would pay themselves off within five years, after which we'd be pumping far less greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and saving bucks to boot. While on the other hand, technology to develop and deploy weapons to blow incoming ICBMs out of the sky are easy to come by. Perhaps, but only in the sense that anyone knows about fairytales. They've got wonderful ideas, but since they don't have any idea at how to implement them in conjuction with a real world economy, their solution is to forcefeed everyone with mandates that things be done their way. The sinple truth is that government controls the supply side through permitting.
Conservation is our job.
Nobody is stopping anybody from conserving if they want to. I think we should all use resources wisely, but I don't want Bush-Cheney, Amory Lovins or anyone else telling me what I need to do. Mr. Lovins is free to conserve as much as he likes using his resources. He can't have mine. I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk.