It is such an honour to be invited to give the Annual Evans Lecture to the University of Washington Civil & Environmental Engineering students. The name, Dan Evans, and returning to the campus after 35 years, leave me lost in a flood of memories. I was here in the late sixties, during some of the most tumultuous years on American campuses. I vividly recall how the University responded to the tragedies at Kent State and Jackson State universities. As Senator Evans recently remarked, "It was a heady time to be governor". It was also a heady time to be a student...although for several reasons, some students' heads were not always in very good shape. At the time oil was cheap, so cheap we used it to generate electricity. Cars were heavy, powerful and inefficient. While the world consumed one third less oil than today, demand increased every year by twice as much.
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