[jec41]

Actually America succeeded most because it accepted science and by luck found a cheap and plentiful source of energy and we became very rich selling it. Now we are having to buy it back. You better hope science come through. Little of the things we have today would be possible without a cheap energy source. Up until the civil war people still rode donkeys and led goats. You better get use to it, as oil gets higher the UAE is going to get richer. If you deny them investment they will simply invest it elsewhere.

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Actually America succeeded most because it accepted science and by luck found a cheap and plentiful source of energy and we became very rich selling it


If you want to believe that America got lucky that's fine. America did fine before oil. We expanded west from ocean to ocean on the backs of horses and mules. We conquered the Indian nations, We defeated the Mexicans, We helped tip the balance in favor of the Allies in WW1. We invented the light bulb, the telephone. We tamed one of the greatest rivers in the world, we invented flight, we landed a man on the moon. We freed millions of people around the world and in our own country too. Yet you say we were just "lucky" because we found oil?
It is our system of government that has caused all of this not luck. That is why the Middle east with all their oil is still where it is. That is why Mexico with all its oil is still a third world country because it is the type of government that lets people flourish not luck.

And as oil gets higher we will use less of it and develop other sources of energy and the Middle east will revert back to the backwater of the world that it has been since Mohammad rode out of the desert.