Andrew Grove, former CEO of Intel, had a editorial in todays San Jose Mercury News about electric vehicles. He says: “Energy independence is the wrong goal….” Many politicos use this phrase as a talking point and it sounds likely, but… he suggests instead “We must strengthen our energy resilience by increasing our reliance on electricity.” The problem is, as he says, to the extent the U.S. “energy” is derived from oil which is increasingly only available from unstable regimes in the middle east, it is folly for the U.S. to be addicted to oil (as G.W. Bush said).

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