“The solution is going to come from the private sector, and what government needs to do is create the framework within which the private sector can do what it does best, which is allocate capital and innovate and begin to take the framework that’s been created. ... We need to go after this as if we’re really at war.”
The US relies on oil to dominate the globe, and we will sooner see all life on earth die than to do anything to threaten that. We also don't have an alternative to the oil economy. So it's up to the private sector to invent a miracle that allows us to transition off fossil fuels while keeping us a global superpower.
We're fucked.