The technology addictions of those nations the media calls "world powers" [China, US, Russia, France, Germany, Britain] and also Japan assures that our world's approach to energy will remain the same as our approach to computer CPU cycles. No matter how much we gain access to, we will find a way to use it all up and still require more.
Last year, a Pentagon correspondent told Wolf Blitzer that the US Military uses 340,000 barrels of oil a day.
US Military Uses 340,000 Barrels of Oil
You and I and every other member of Afrochat could spend the rest of our lives driving 18 wheelers back and forth across the North American continent and the fuel we wasted would not even come close to what the US Military burns up in just one day.
The solution to Energy Consumption is World Peace.