I don't think you have to be in favor of 100% of someones ideas in order to appreciate their expertise, especially in this case when it comes to the oil market. Besides, there are numerous others who agree if you do a smidgen of searching.
“So have we reduced our military with the reduction of our oil imports so far? Any serious talk that we will be doing so?”
It does not make sense that the level of military spending would be linearly proportional to our oil imports. There would be a threshold we would have to cross where we would be effectively independent and not have to worry if OPEC decided to embargo us or if some rogue state decided to spike a couple tankers in the Persian Gulf.
Furthermore, the large amount of domestic shale oil investment can't continue with the Saudi's slashed oil prices. Evidence that the Saudis can make us dependent on a whim. I'd much rather us bootstrap the commoditization of batteries so that we can pay the roughly one dollar a gallon equivalent that electricity costs.
Regardless, the debate on the EV rebates will be moot in a few years anyway when they phase out on their own.
But we are talking about cutting the military, not the oil market. The idea that justifies government subsidies of electric cars is silly.
They would still attack us.
Are you getting bonus checks for posting idiocy?