And as usual we do not have enough political leaders willing to force this points on the American pyschic. Twenty some years back for instance, I had gone along with the idea the US long term plan was to simply bleed the rest of the world from their oil, then have lots for ourselves. I no longer hold to that mentality. I see nothing wrong with revitalizing our oil industry to use our resources and at least become close to oil independant. And surely we must remove the stigma from going all out in the nuclear energy sector. Damn lot of oil could be saved right their. So many options we could go into that make perfect sense should the enviromental whackos be silenced and a new breed of politicians come forth. Yea I know, don't hold my breath.
I see thirty years wasted following the Arab oil embargo. The major action was to set a speed limit and drive muscle cars off the market. Nuke plants? Forget it. Public transportation? Forget it. So here we are at something just a few days short of crisis all the time. We have a public system that won't fix the problem and won't allow the private sector to fix it either--worst of both worlds.