Away with coal, and China can't get enough. Just like with the dot coms., just like every "next big thing", having lost nearly 4 decades of research to appease the oil industries.
During the great depression era this country produced 70% of its oil, we now produce about 1/3 of this.
Its better to be held hostage to countries like Iran, and maybe even Venezuela who would like nothing more than to be able to divert its oil sales to other countries, and allow them to become a real threat to the Middle-East, and the rest of the world to prevent skyrocketing oil prices.
Whats worse?. The threat of global warming, or radio active fallout?. With al qaeda threatening every country whose involved in combating them with something like a dirty bomb or worse if we, and they don't pull out it serves everything that Iran wants to accomplish, its been a great diversion, and George Bush walked us right into it by not pursuing our might in Afghanistan, and his father had a golden opportunity during Desert Storm that he blew, there was a real build up of insurgents after we pulled out, but it didn't happen overnight it took years. Iran had a decade to plot and plan, and so Ahmadinejad will probably succeed unless Israel decides it can't live under such a threat.
We had choices and alot of weaponry and forces we could have used in Afghanistan at the onset, instead we got bogged down in Iraq, a country whose leader was not a threat to the US. But yet they had oil, and 911 was as great a excuse.
Now it appears that Obama doesn't know what to do?
