We need to designate all the oil fields in Alaska a part of the Strategic Oil Reserve. The existing reserves can keep America going for hours, at best. We need weeks or months, at least. The worse the war on terrorism gets, the greater should be our fuel reserves. The Bush Administration lobbied long and hard to open the Alaska Wildlife Refuge to drilling to produce the oil and gas there. They say it’s important to make the U.S. less dependent upon foreign crude. All the known oil reserves in the world will be gone in twenty years. What happens then? What happens when the new Iraqi government realizes they are sitting on 55% of the known reserves of the whole world and they do what Saddam Hussein was doing, with a democratic government? Does that idea make you afraid?
If Washington was really interested in making America more self sufficient they would do what the Nazis did in Germany during World War II. The entire German economy, and it’s war machine, were all run 100% on synthetic fuels made from coal. They also made all the rubber they needed from coal. The U.S. has the largest coal reserves of any nation in the world. The odds of us running out of fuel are infinitesimally small. It’s bizarre that synthetic fuel from coal has never been mentioned in any national energy debate. Too bad the formula is lost right now, but will miraculously surface when all the oil runs out. Then we can strip mine all the coal and destroy what’s left of America; and burn all the coal and destroy what’s left of planet Earth.