And Hezbollah really doesn’t exist as a global terror threat without petrodollars. The same thing with Hamas. And let’s be frank. There’s members of the Saudi royal family, all 7,000 of them, that supply money for people to kill Americans in Iraq. So that’s something that we’ve got a D on. It’s not an A at all. It’s a terrible record that the last six years, that we haven’t made a dent in cutting two to three…we don’t have to be energy independent. We just have to cut two or three million barrels out of the world demand each day. We consume 25% of the world’s oil. If we could just drill of our coasts, drill in Anwar, up the conservation average of our fleet, let Brazilians import ethanol, get back on the grid with nuclear power, starting with gasification, six or seven different things simultaneously to cut down two or three million barrels that we demand from the world every day, then that price would go down to $20-30 dollars.Ignorance is truly bliss, and in the case of Americans, these connections were never grasped, and the problem will not simply go away by itself.
Petrodollars, terrorism, energy independence, nuclear power, ANWAR...
Funny that the Birkenstock crowd has forgotten all about John Muir when he said,
When you pick up anything in the world, you find that it is connected to everything else.
Doesn't apply to terrorism and oil I guess.
Dr. Hanson just connected yet one more dot for me with this statement.
The guy really is a national treasure. I’m sure others have said similar things, but Dr. Hanson puts in way way that I can understand.