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We will not attack Iran, we will not attack Venezuela. It is just fear mongering and sabre rattling for pre election hoopla and attempts to make sure the war budget is constantly approved.
Saudi is rumored to be past peek oil already and are inflating numbers and boosting its reserves. China is becoming a nation on the move and is in an energy crisis with the instant demand for the need of cars and general power through coal plants and the like.
Everyone and their brothers should already understand that the money should not be spent on wars over easy to get oil and more on alternate fuel sources. The oil needs for most cars in the US can be overcame with small amounts of consumer discomfort. It is our power plants and other energy issues that run on oil that will be a bit more troublesome to get past. Then again the future does not rely in corn ethanol either unless we as a country are particularly suicidal.
We really do need to bite the bullet and spend all we can on new infrastructures and energy production. We need to replace all of our old rail track with high speed electrical lines. We need to improve on underground CO2 storage. Build wind farms, solar towers, ocean turbines and everything else we can to boost our own energy production.
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