[ckilmer]

I don’t know if you guys have any sense of history. But Musk’s work is the closest thing the USA now has to a strategic policy to destroy al qaeda.

How so. Well Pakistan in 1980 had 10 madrasses. Now Pakistan has 10000 madrasses. these and thousands more like them around the world serve as the large end of a funnel that eventually leads to al qaeda recruits.

Destroy that funnel and al qaeda vaporizes.

How do you destroy the funnel.

You defund it.

How do you defund it. You defund the funnel by defunding the deep pockets in the gulf states who provide the funding for the madrasses from large oil revenues.

So how do you defund the gulf states. You kill the price oil.

How do you kill the price of oil? You collapse the demand for oil.

How do you collapse the demand for oil. Take a look at Tesla. That’s an electric car. they don’t need gasoline. Now, not many will be produced in the next couple years. and even the 500k goal for 2020 that tesla has made for itself by 2020 is still a drop in the bucket. But if the expansion of tesla sales expansion continues for another 10 years at the same pace —that will cap and collapse the demand for oil. If Tesla is producing 500k cars in 2020— you can bet the majors world wide will be jumping head first and pell mell into the game. So the total number of electric cars will be much higher.

Now combine that with a 30% annual expansion of the number of natural gas power trucks and buses...

What you have is a 15 year strategic plan to destroy al qaeda courtesy of the USA culture itself.

This would do George Kennan proud. (He was the formulator of the Containment policy in 1948 which strategic policy— 40 years later lead to the collapse of the old soviet union.)

[gunsequalfreedom]

I’m nominating your post as post of the month with a suggestion it also be in the running for post of the year.

I guess that is a cute way of saying you are spot on with your comment.

[Regulator]

That’s what Musk has in mind.

Get the U.S. Off of oil, let the Arabs drink their black juice.

Others talk, he does.

Al Qaeda will end up walking.

[re_nortex]

I trust Sarah Palin who said:

This losing tax-subsidized venture joins other past losers like the Obama-subsidized Volt that gets 40 miles per battery charge, or like the Obama-subsidized Tesla that turns into a ‘brick’ when the battery completely discharges and then costs $40,000 to repair. This is really just the latest manifestation of the administration’s crony capitalism as their green energy buddies benefit from this atrocious waste of taxpayer money. Americans really need to get outraged by these wasteful ventures. As we’ve seen time and time again, We the People are always stuck subsidizing the left’s ‘losers.’

Although not a long telegram, Governor Palin's full remarks about Tesla are here. And that genuine American patriot has a real strategic plan to destroy the muzzies.

[Smokin' Joe]

Collapse the price of oil and you collapse the industry keeping America afloat right now.

It is a question of where our money goes, and whether we fund our adversaries, or whether we spend it in America. Otherwise, Asia will keep demand for oil up as a global commodity.

[smokingfrog]

al qaeda runs on hate and evil as much as oil. they’re not going to go away anytime soon