Just another Rag (head) to riches story for the Libyans. They've been welcomed into the club by the Saudis. Horacio Alger would be jealous that he didn't write it. Let's keep lining the coffers of people who hate us.
OR, build a grid of solar electricity and run on govt. funded, built, maintained and controlled solar power. Electric cars are useless without solar power. They just conveniently transfer the carbon emissions to the coal-burning plants. They're probably WORSE for the environment, economy, and national security than gassers. BUT, if they ran on solar power....
Mexico doesn't have Shell, Esso, Exxon, Mobil, Valero, etc. They have PeMex. A government-controlled petroleum provider. The state owns ALL rights to natural resources under the soil. The upshot is that fuel is almost always cheap in Mexico, and the prices are virtually the same, no matter where in the country you are. Meanwhile, our douchebag politicians squeeze the laws so that Halliburton and it's buddies can hydro-frack the *** out of our national parks looking for resources, make a profit, and leave a path of destruction to the national environment. *** T. Boone Pickens. The very LAST thing we need to pull away from foreign oil and gas is to destroy the very environment we depend on. The ONLY solution is solar power.
Think of 70% or better solar power in 10 years ( electric or diesel-hybrid power) and guess where we'd be in 10 years. The only thing we'd need oil for is production (plastics and the like). Once we pull out of the sand-creature countries, we could sit back and watch them kill each other (which is really what they want to do anyways).
Diesel is a start, but it's not the solution. No matter how painful it is to the pockets now, green energy is a NATIONAL SECURITY issue, more than it is an economic issue. Tell your representative that. I'm sure they're too stupid, or lobbied to think otherwise.
Let the hating begin by the PC police....
