> For hundreds of years, energy got steadily cheaper. Then in 1973 that progress stopped, and for the next 50 years energy prices have been roughly flat. Fortu

> For hundreds of years, energy got steadily cheaper. Then in 1973 that progress stopped, and for the next 50 years energy prices have been roughly flat. Fortunately, this is artificial due to OPEC - and solar and wind will free us from this eventually. The effects should be pretty dramatic somewhere in the next 10-15 years. But this might be one of those situations where things get worse before they get better.