Buddy, that's the point I'm making. Maybe it shouldn't be. I'm not saying this is something that's going to happen tomorrow. I'm saying we need to get off the bad stuff. Anything we can replace we should as quickly as possible without making our lives worse. Anything we can't replace we will have more available for it without needing to resort to sending American boys and girls off to die for it.

It doesn't have to be all or nothing. You can replace all electricity production within a reasonable time frame, again, for a small proportion of what we spend on bombs. That would make a huge difference in oil imports. You could replace a percentage of the US car fleet with electric cars, you could move to electric heating instead of gas. There are a lot of things we could do to substantially reduce our dependence on foreign countries on volatile areas of the world. Or we could eat up oil talking points and keep letting a corporate elites send our boys and girls off to die for their profits.