Until we get free of oil dependency, we have to deal with oil dependency. Not anybody in particular. There are a number of ways to deal with it. While we are dependent, deal with it we must.

I am not advocating any particular means of dealing with it.

The powers that be, who laid the foundations for this mess do not consult me for my opinions, nor have they ever.

The only reason I got in this thread was irritation at bluke's presumption that we should somehow, without the benifit of sainthood, please everybody in the ME, and support some mythical brotherhood of man ahead of our own interests.

I think I'm done with this thread; please yourselves...