Stephan:   I have some criticisms of this report because it gives a static cost for solar power when, in fact, it is dropping like an apple from a tree. Two years from now the per watt price is projected by some to be half what it is today. But, that said, this is wonderful news and as you read it think about the implications that flow from this confluence of the electric car and solar technologies. This is what the country should have been focusing on, not endless wars and absurd Maiginot Line weapons systems like the F-35 or the Zumwalt class destroyers which were designed to fight a war style that is no longer relevant. If we had committed to solar and electric cars at the time of the first Iraq War, in 1991, and spent what we have spent on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in seven years, by 2021, we would have seen the end of gas stations, most pipelines, offshore drilling, fracking, and the much of the panoply of the carbon era. It will take much longer to complete eliminate petroleum in  chemistry and other sectors -- it won't disappear like whale oil -- but it will be a fraction of its former self.