Oy vey. We can complicate the shit out of things and go into all the separate disciplines of Energy Economics or we could open our eyes and see that our economy has been built on cheap energy (oil) that we didn't have to compete for and we thought we'd never run out of.
Things changed. We use so much oil that we started having to import more and more and the fucking geniuses that thought we could always depend on military might to safeguard the energy resources we are so dependent upon were arrogant and wrong.
Click on the book cover to read part of the book. And stick that in your pipe and smoke it. Then read the book...
Update 8:35 AM 2/8/2009 I finished the book and I'll summarize what I think is the most important message in this book:
If the best minds from different countries can learn to work together in energy partnerships then they can save a lot of money and lives that are now being wasted on military expenditures in military adventures using military partnerships because they are competing and collaborating (militarily) for energy resources.
I understand that. I was a competitive swimmer for 6 years and you know what I hated about competitive swimming?
Competing....
Update 10:32 AM 2/8/2009
We ignore the leader of an ex-empire that was our competition to our peril. It is us (well, American foreign policy anyway) who is isolating us by acting unilaterally.
A Russia Reality Check
By Fred Hiatt
Sunday, February 8, 2009; Page B07
Yeah, whatever, Hiatt's been in Washington too long in my opinion.
Update 10:08 AM 2/9/2009 links fixed
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