Yes, but the rest of the world can't. The developing world would continue to be dependant upon mohammedan oil and, therefore, Western financial institutions would be intimately invested in allah's oil. And where Western financial institutions go, Western taxpayers cannot be far behind to bail them out.
By the way, I am no fan of the current "green" movement, which, I believe is funded by the oil oligarchy. Why do I think that? Because the SOLE effect of green activism in the last 30 years has been the total reinfocement of the STATUS QUO in energy production and economic consciousness.
There's oil money behind these global ecology agreements like Kyoto. The purpose of these highly bureaucratic agreements is to preserve the status quo--with a heavier tax burden on the so-called "rich" nations-- while bringing the developing world into the web.
All of these rich, white, "green" students are the perfect front for the status quo. Not only are they ignorant, they are arrogant---the perfect form of acceptable "white supremicism". We only want to help our poor little black and brown brothers. Help them do what? Why, to become as dependant upon oil as we are, of course.
You watch. In a very few years the WTO and the World Bank will start inviting these useful dopes to their confabs in Davos to "adivise" the old grey beards on how best to get everyone equalized in the world. Meaning equally submissive to the oil oligarchy.
What is the color of mohammedanism? Green, of course.....
Oil is a blessing. This resource has fueled prosperity, health and enlightenment. Oil is a good thing. That's why it's so popular.
More grand conspiracy theories, but no concrete examples on how YOU PERSONALLY have removed yourself from "life on the plantation" or why YOUR "little hiney" is NOT "sticking up in the air right next to John Muhammed's".
Come on, tell us! HOW can we free ourselves from the "oillah"? What are YOU doing to reduce your dependence on the oil-based economy?
I thought by now you'd at least have been imaginative enough to tell me that you were running your [petroleum based] computer using a bicycle-powered generator.