Max Schulz of The Mahattan Institute has a great article in today’s Washington DC Examiner that illustrates just why the energy debate is getting nowhere: people are badly misiniformed. For example:

Americans, it seems, are similarly misinformed on a host of other issues, believing that the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island was deadly (it wasn’t); that our cities are getting dirtier (air pollution has actually been slashed since 1970); that the Kyoto Protocol would require all nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions (it exempted China and India); that wind and solar power could substitute easily for coal and nuclear power (they could not); and that we can easily meet our future energy requirements solely with conservation and efficiency measures (very unlikely).

No wonder politicians keep making idiotic statements and taking worse decisions on energy policy. And that affects every one of us every time we switch on a light, CFL or not.