[Who is John Galt?]

The United States have been described as "the Saudi Arabia of coal", with enough coal to provide energy to the nation for centuries. So of course, the environmental extremists want us to stop using it completely - not unexpected, given the old Earth First! slogan, "Back to the stone age!"

[Jumper]

In the 70s we thought we had pumped out the Texas oil fields. By the 1990s they were 2/3s full again. The oil seeps to the crust, and the left weeps.