If you really want to save the world from fossil fuels you head to the commodity market and you promote war in the middle east. Buy every drop of oil and every oil future you can, leverage everything and drive the prices through the roof.

Make sure the middle east is enough of a mess that places like Chine and India will look at it as too much hassle to go in and get oil, and look for alternatives.

People will give up oil when it gets to damn expensive. It doesn’t even have to be consistently expensive as long as you make sure the price hikes are big enough and frequent enough.

Right now, brand new pickups like mine are selling for $10k *less* than what I paid 5 years ago and even then they are not selling very fast. Sure, a lot of that is exchange rate, but what has driven the change in exchange rate? Oil and gas prices.

Thanks to Ralph’s Enron electricity policies Alberta has gone from having the lowest consumer electricity rates outside of Quebec to the highest. Not coincidently we also have one of the highest rates of non subsidized Compact Fluorescent retrofitting.

None of which is to say Alberta is environmentally sensitive… in general quite the opposite. But that’s the point: otherwise wasteful people simply can’t afford not cut back.

If you are a true believer that feels you have to save the world inspite of itself, and you think people will not listen to reason and have to be tricked into action… then fudging scientific data is the wrong way to do it. Manipulating the commodities market is