Fuel Our Economy With Alcohol? Brilliant!
Via He Who Needs No Links, this vision from Robert Zubrin:
Energy conservation offers only a strained strategy for enduring economic oppression with very slightly ameliorated pain. Today’s petroleum monopolists would still ultimately have us over a barrel. The ballyhooed hydrogen economy, meanwhile, is a hoax.If we are to win the critical energy battle, there is only one way to do it. We must take ourselves, and the rest of the world, off the petroleum standard. Only by doing this can we destroy the economic power of our enemies at the very foundations. Only in this way can we transfer control of the future from those who take their wealth, pre-made, from the ground (and therefore have no need for education or freedom), to those who make their wealth through hard work, skill, and creativity (who thus must build free societies which maximize the human potential of every citizen).
Our nation’s founders stipulated that the purpose of our government is to provide for our defense, promote our welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. In our current economic and military dilemma, decisive action for energy independence is one of the most dramatic steps we could take to achieve those ends. Congress should immediately require that all future vehicles sold in the U.S.A. be flexible-fueled, thereby launching us into an alcohol-energy future that holds promise like few other options within our grasp.
Yes! Let us kick the Arab oil monopolists in their collective huevos by converting our liquid-fuel platforms over to a substance prohibited by their Prophet. We will run our entire economy on the infamy of Satan's handiwork! Then, if we could find a way to manufacture automobiles from pork by-products, we wouldn't have to bother hunting down bin Laden...his head would explode of its own accord.
Mr. Zubrin neatly explains why the transition to economically and politically viable liquid fuels - as opposed to the puritanical "conservation" so often touted as a solution - is the vital task of the 21st century.
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