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I know it seems foolish as we head into a painful recession, but we need higher fuel prices to attract investment into new energy technologies. The way to do this, I believe, is to put a rising floor under the price of oil (or fossil-generated BTUs, in a broader scheme). This floor could start where oil is right now, which is fairly low, say $60 per barrel. Then every year it goes up by, say, $7.…