The second critical role for health care should be to model the transition to a post-fossil fuel economy.

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What are our post-fossil-fuel options?

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From an economic perspective, the recent discoveries of abundant domestic shale oil and gas supplies may help us avoid the likelihood of an oil shock and buy us the breathing ground to plan for a more gradual transition to a more efficient post-fossil world.

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