please join me in welcoming deputy secretary daniel punman.[applause] >> thank you, alisha, for the kind introduction. i was flighted to have anything to do with the thick. i'm a -- the atlantic. i'm a student of history, and as we're coming in here, i'm saying, wait, wasn't that ralph waldo emerson who founded the atlantic? and it was. it's a pretty high bar to measure out when you think of your predecessors and likes of oliver wendell holmes sr., harriet beecher stowe. so i will not aspire to their literary elegance, but i will try to offer commentary or something that -- on something that may be as important to our era as the issues that animated the foundation of that august magazine were to those years in the middle of the last century, back in 1857. energy, no more important issue, i think, can we think about in terms of what's going to shape our future than energy, and i'm talking in terms of our prosperity, i'm talking in terms of our environment, i'm talking in terms of our security. and while there is no silver bullet, i think that i