In this sense, NASA climatologist James Hansen agrees with Dick Cheney who famously called individual conservation measures «a personal virtue» but not the
stuff of national energy policy.
The overriding challenge, this official said, is to find a
path of the national energy policy miasma and focus on where the nation's electric power will be coming from after 2020, before there's no time left to carry out the plans.
Assess the
sustainability of national energy policies: how do countries perform in their likely ability to balance the three dimension of the Energy Trilemma: energy security, social equity, environmental impact mitigation?
«The
goal of a national energy policy must be to ensure a secure supply of abundant, affordable, and available energy for the American people in an environmentally responsible manner.»