Gore: Don’t Count On Magic | Newsweek Future Of Energy | Newsweek.com:

Newsweek: So industry leaders are acting with unwarranted optimism, in order to build more coal plants immediately?

Gore: It’s beginning to resemble something that the auto companies did for years. Every few years they would show the cars of the future that run on hydrogen or whatever. [They say] they’re going to be magical and pollution-free and they put them in the showroom—but then they never build them. We cannot allow an illusion to be the basis of a strategy for human survival.