Originally Posted by jungle

It is a mistake to think terrorism is merely a product of oil production, we get a lot of oil from Canada yet we don't have a problem with Canadian terrorists.

Most countries that are major oil producers invest heavily in western economies, little of that money goes to terrorist groups. Terror won't end with windmills, biofuel or solar panels-it is a cheap byproduct of ideology.

There is plenty of oil, coal and NG available, using Fischer-Tropsch and other well known and proven technologies we are not going to have a major disruption. The largest mistake we could make would be to subsidize inefficient and costly energy with an already overburdened financial system.

The ethanol farce was a perfect example of the wrong way forward in energy self-sufficiency.