[Oberon]

As a matter of policy, any sovereign nation should want to be as independent on foreign supplies of strategic resources as it possibly can be. That's just prudent, for any number of reasons.

For example, if conditions warrant, it enables your diplomats to tell a neighboring country's diplomats to go soak their heads.

[Badeye]

“As a matter of policy, any sovereign nation should want to be as independent on foreign supplies of strategic resources as it possibly can be. That’s just prudent, for any number of reasons.
For example, if conditions warrant, it enables your diplomats to tell a neighboring country’s diplomats to go soak their heads.”

Its a nice theory, but as you and I both know, its unworkable as things stand today. Personally, I would have launched a decade long ‘crash program’ along the lines of the Manhatten Project or Apollo with the goal of a viable alternative energy source.