This episode, Jacki interviews Scott Angelle, the longest serving director of the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (Dept. of the Interior) and the former Secretary of the Louisiana Dept. of Natural Resources about the spike in energy prices that always precedes U.S. recessions and what can be done about to fend off the next recession. - - - - - Jacki reviews the moving pieces on the world’s superpower chess board through the lens of Daniel Yergin’s The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, and recounts the history of George P. Mitchell’s unleashing of the “frac’ing revolution,” making the U.S. the top producer of oil and gas on earth.  - - - - - The Administration’s reaction to $3.00 gasoline and its impact on presidential popularity, historically. - - - - Jacki reviews environmentalist Michael Schellenberger’s account of polar bear populations in his book Apocalypse Never and suggests that perhaps the hunting over 50,000 polar bears since 1970 is an underexamined factor producing their current population, holding at around 26,000.