[cicero2k]

Good article.

Vast new sources of clean energy bode well for America, China and the rest of the world outside OPEC.

As the article points out, conservatism principles also win. A victory Productive values vs. Ideological values.

[wideminded]

Even today radical Islamists on both sides of the Gulf have only two exports: oil and religious fanaticism.

Almost half of the world's pistachio supply comes from Iran.

And then there are all those Persian rugs ...