The idea is that, somehow, societies could replace fossil fuels with weak, diffuse, intermittent energy from windmills, sunlight or low-intensity energy stored in batteries (although nuclear power mostly need not apply). In other words, energy transition as pure political will. Article contentIn fact, Mills notes, while the data show nothing resembling an energy transition, we’ve seen continual additions to energy supplies from all sources, politically favoured or not. Have our efforts to suppress oil, gas and coal in favour of wind, water and sunlight been more successful? Despite decades of electric-transportation boosterism by governments across the country, fossil fuels accounted for almost 99% of the transportation sector’s energy consumption in Canada.