[publius911]

The gulf states are floating on oil but likely in under two decades things like electric cars and thorium reactors will collapse the demand for oil and collapse the price of oil.

Electric cars?
Thorium reactors?

Just remember that corrupt politicians, bowing to the corrupt "environmental" lobby has the final word.
Forget electric cars running on electricity produced by fairy dust or unicorn methane.

[ckilmer]

Actually the pentagon wants portable nuclear power plants for their bases around the USA to get them off the power grids—which they now see as way to vulnerable.

As it happens EPA Rules & Regs don’t apply on DOD property.