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Just in case you think I\'ve gone soft on the energy industry, let me say that claims that we\'re having a crisis because environmentalists wouldn\'t let oil companies do their job are equally bogus. When you hear someone talk about how no refineries were built for 25 years, remember that until recently, oil companies weren\'t interested in building refineries, because they had excess capacity and profit margins were thin.
In fact, the current crisis is nobody\'s fault, except Mother Nature\'s. Both Katrina and Rita were stronger hurricanes when they plowed through offshore oil and gas fields than when they made landfall. And because damaged refineries and other energy facilities are competing for a limited number of repair crews, it\'s taking a long time to get those facilities back up and running.
What this means is that a lot of \"demand destruction\" must take place over the next few months. That is, one way or another, people will have to be persuaded to limit their consumption of natural gas, gasoline and heating oil to match the available supply.
In the absence of an effective conservation policy, prices will do all the persuading: the cost of fuel will rise until people drive less and turn down their thermostats. The problem, of course, is that high prices will impose serious hardship on many families.
And that\'s why administration officials are sounding vaguely greenish: they hope to limit the price pain by persuading people to curb their energy consumption out of a sense of public duty. Done right, such a campaign really could make a difference. In fact, energy conservation played a significant role in ending California\'s crisis four years ago.
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