The many little wars the US has been involved in for the last several decades have all been about oil ... just not so blatantly.
Perhaps if we were able to build nuclear plants, like we used to do and like France still does, we wouldn't need to rely so much on foreign oil.
But the very word "nuclear" seems to send the rabid environmentalists heading for their fainting couches.
Pretty silly way to run a country...
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Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool
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If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
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