Tesla’s Elon Musk: $10 Gasoline Should Do The Trick - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal and now the head of electric-car maker Tesla, made a splash yesterday when he called for $10 gasoline to fully account for all the environmental harm associated with fossil fuels.

It was self-serving, of course: Tesla makes expensive electric cars which could only get more attractive if gas prices soar. Though it’s worth noting that Mr. Musk’s sugarplum vision of high gas prices isn’t that much different than the one initially floated—and later retracted—by Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

Harry Fuller weighs in | ZDNet.com

The Kansas ag industry might try growing sugar cane instead of corn or wheat. So it could be ethanol from sugar cane, not from corn for your grandkids, it they don’t die of heat prostration first. Looks like air conditioning is a definite buy for your portfolio. That is, if you imagine there’ll be enough energy to actually power air conditioning.
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A newsman since 1969, Harry Fuller has worked for CBS, ABC, CNBC Europe, CNET and was founding news director at TechTV.