Hank Paulson is Example # 1 of how a person can be very smart and successful on some issues and be incredibly stupid on other issues.
I think a good energy policy would be to keep Canadians from freezing. Even if it submerges a couple island, it is for the greater good, right?
So he explains away the recession on global warming and not the subprime corruption to which he profited.
Then he wants more government waste and tax and corrupted idle factories and potemkin pseudoproducing bureaucrats burning oil for no reason to solve this problem, adding fuel to the fire and blaming the rest of us for not spoiling the beast with more servitude and taxes...