Righteo, Tom. And the story gets even loopier. Not only is China charging ahead with ununstainable growth, the U.S. is perfecting the art. To borrow from Al Gore's words in a July interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, "Right now we are borrowing huge amounts of money from China to buy huge amounts of oil from the most unstable region of the world, and to bring it here and burn it in ways that destroy the habitability of the planet. That is nuts! We have to change every aspect of that."