An Energy Revolution By Robert Zubrin An Energy Revolution

The American Enterprise ^ | January 30, 2006 | By Robert Zubrin

[truemiester]

The world economy is currently running on a resource that is controlled by our enemies. This threatens to leave us prostrate. It must change—and the good news is that it can change, quickly.

Using portions of the hundreds of billions of petrodollars they are annually draining from our economy, Middle Easterners have established training centers for terrorists, paid bounties to the families of suicide bombers, and funded the purchase of weapons and explosives. Oil revenues underwrite new media outlets that propagandize hatefully against the United States and the West. They pay for more than 10,000 radical madrassahs set up around the world to indoctrinate young boys with the idea that the way to paradise is to murder Christians, Jews, and Hindus. It was men energized by oil-revenue resources who killed 3,000 American civilians on September 11, 2001, and who have continued to kill large numbers of Westerners in Iraq and elsewhere. We are thus subsidizing acts of war against ourselves.

And we have not yet reached the culmination of the process. Iran and other states are now

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The point is not about avoiding the war. The war is inevitable, the moslems are commanded by their scriptures to fight against us until they win or die. The point is about winning that war.

Excellent observation. That is the choice they give us also, win or die. Why do some insist on ignoring that?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

As far as conservation goes, there is nothing wrong with that. No one is in favor of unwise use of resources.

My comment may seem frivilous but it is not intended to be.

What we need and what our goal should be is bountiful and cheap energy.

Some of us had parents and grandparents who admonished us to eat all on our plate because there were people starving in India who would love to have that food. Those parents and grandparents were often survivors of the depression who may have sometimes had a problem providing food so that subject was dearer to them.

Today we waste food with abandon because it is bountiful and cheap. That is what our goal for energy should be. Just as the free market and American ingenuity solved the food problem so will it solve the energy crisis when deemed necessary. "Deemed necessary" means when some entrepreneur thinks it is worthwhile to do.

[Rakkasan1]

Congress should issue war bonds again. this time the $ goes to fund bio-fuel research and people can put their money where their mouths are.

[arthurus]

Save that idea about war bonds for the real war. It's coming. Iraq is only a first step, a little foothold. It will take a 21st century Vienna or/and Lepanto scale win to knock this zombie back into its crypt and if we hesitate at any point the severity of it will increase exponentially.