Enroll me in the school of thought that looks to complexity for an understanding of the future and its possibilities.

So greenies do not like coal plants? Here is how coal can be PART of the solution - even if one choses to engage on the turf of those who believe the threat of climate change is real and man made.

Plug-in hybrids could be HUGE in a decade. GM and Toyota engineers are hard at work. And just what might be the ramifications if many of today's cars are supplanted by the plug-in variety? You may have missed a joint report by EPRI and the Natural Resources Defense Council - strange bedfellows there, unless you believe as I do that the times they are a changin.

The report said that 60 percent - 60 out of every 100 light vehicles - sedans - on the roads today could be replaced by plug-in hybrids and plugged in in garages from San Diego to Portland, Maine by 2050. And it would barely cause a blip in the power sector. Indeed, it would only cause a rise of about 8 percent in power consumption, the report said. And carbon dioxide emissions would plummet even if much of that power was churned out of coal-fired power plants, because it seems such granddads of the power sector are cleaner than our sputtering gasoline chugging vehicles of today.

Another report says we can plug in 73 pecent of the light autos in the country each night and the power demand could be met by EXISTING POWER PLANTS. And it would mean that half - half - of the oil tankers now headed toward US shores can turn around and go back and drown the foreign US hating cesspools that now take delight in our oil dependency. 

This stuff, reported recently [May 2] in the Wall Street Journal, will be explored further in an upcoming issue of EnergyBiz, so stay tuned.

This stuff is huge - and could cause as big a bang as the first shots in Concord that launched the American revolution.

Let's run our coal plants all out - power our cars - and cut greenhouse gases. These are the kind of game-changes that could have Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, partying with their arms around each other.