Bloomberg reports that oil prices are climbing in the wake of a pipeline shutdown in the United Kingdom and rebels attacking another pipeline in Nigeria. OPEC is keeping production down, and Iran wants oil to climb still northward.

Meanwhile NBC can burn up energy promoting a Green Week, part of which is advertising energy-efficient products like CFL bulbs from NBC’s parent, General Electric.

We can’t tackle energy issues from the demand side alone. We have to address our supply issues. Punitive regulations must be lifted from the power industries, while removing their subsidies. Access to our own natural resources must be restored. Taxation of imported goods, like Brazilian ethanol, should be reduced.

We are making this problem by strapping ourselves to an ideology of planet supremacy. We are choosing the result of higher food and energy prices and more poverty in the pursuit of a stopped planetary evolution. We can ask those who are starving because food isn’t as cheap and energy isn’t as plentiful whether this pursuit is worth it.