[ChildOfThe60s]

I doubt that there will be any significant relief from escalating prices until consumers reduce their consumption.

One more time: You can't conserve your way into growth. You can be more efficient, which we are, significantly.

BUT more energy must be produced. Period. No matter what else happens.

There are tremendous reserves of oil. The US government has restricted access to unbelievable reserves of fossil fuels.
This is a man made problem which is found in the the supply/production end, NOT the consumption end.

It ain't nuclear physics folks.

[Brilliant]

I don't follow you. You're saying that supply is the only relevant issue to the question of how high the price is?

That seems to go against basic economics. Basic economics says that supply AND demand determine price.