I once thought that way until I met Boone and sat with him talking about this.
His philosophy is simple: get away from imported energy as fast as possible because the Middle East is collapsing rapidly. The Saudi Royal family will collapse soon and that will plunge the entire ME into abject turmoil.
If islamists take over, they may shut off energy to the West. They do not care if their people starve without oil revenue....their ideology comes first.
Boone did the windmill stuff to silence the greenies who hate him for making his fortune in oil. He is a supporter, but only if it is economical (which he said is not possible)
After that, I didn't judge him as harshly.
Thanks for that insight.
I want us to be energy UN-dependent on the Middle East.
Once and for all.
I have been waiting since 1974.