as my old mentor, admiral rickover, put it, nature is not as forgiving as jesus. i have to make a few points, not necessarily because of the time restrictions, the bumper sticker links, not very convincing by themselves, there is handout material out from to amplify and explain some of those things. i rest on that. we are going to start with finignizing that energy is itfined, very basic definition, the capacity to take action, the capacity to do work. lots of action and work are needed in this country to do all the things we want to do. anything anybody tells you ohey're going to do, the first e ing they have to do is expand energy. so the first thing we need to do as an energy policy is to make more energy. people say you can't do that, what we have got to do is improve our efficiency and reduce waste. there is nothing that says you can't reduce waste and improve the efficiency while you are making more energy. you do like any good business does, you're going to do both. many scientists say the right energy solution will be some long range research miracle, 0.en