More On ic Oil

It would be funny if it were not so pathetic... all the TPers etc. who deny that our trillion-dollar futile involvement in middle-east peace creation/keeping has nothing to do with Oil, and that the thousands of lives lost in Iraq are justified by some reason other than our disastrous addiction to oil. Imagine if we had not been complete morons, and had invested those lives and dollars into developing alternative energy, even if it was only getting all fuel stations to add a pump for natural gas and giving incentives for buying and building natural gas powered vehicles. We could drill out our natural gas and use it up over the next 50-100 years. Then we could carefully drill our oil reserves to supply all the stuff we can't make from natural gas: jet fuel, plastics, fertilizer, medicine, fabric.... Eventually, we could make many of those things by renewable means, such as using vegetable oil. We could run trucks and trains on bio-diesel. Eventually, we can generate all our electricity using nuclear plants, wind power, solar, hydro, and geothermal (that will take over 20 years...). In the meantime we would need to use coal and whatever else we have. Anyway, we have wasted a staggering amount of blood and treasure for the sake of our foreign oil addiction with no end in sight. A trillion dollars would have put us in good shape for alternate energy sources, and we could have the advised the Middle East and Venezuela to take a flying leap.