WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Angus King, of Maine, says technology will continue to have a major impact on energy development, but no one can reliably predict how.
At a meeting of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, King told his colleagues that no one saw how hydro-fracking would improve U.S. energy sources.
"Nobody predicted that even eight or nine years ago, in terms of the impact that it was going to have," King said. "And there may be some kid somewhere who is figuring out how to sequester coal CO2, and it's going to change the whole world."
King joked with Adam Sieminski, the administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration, that no matter what his agency, or any member of Congress, predicts will be developed to meet the energy needs of the future, they will be wrong. Sieminski agreed.
"The only thing we can say for sure about any of our predictions is that they will be wrong," Sieminski said, with a laugh. "I know that we are going to be wrong. I would like not to be wrong right away. I would subscribe to that as well - I would like to be proven wrong long after I'm gone."
