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Published: August 17, 2008
The Tao of oil: Energy path not as green as we think
The Oklahoman Editorial
T HE "boring reality” is how one editorialist put it recently. It's the dawning knowledge that for all the talk about alternative energy, the soaring rhetoric doesn't fly very high above the real world. Or beneath it.

Take windmills. The American Wind Energy Association expects the amount of electricity generated by that method to rise dramatically in 2008 — to just above 1 percent. Solar energy? It's responsibl...

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