Petroleum has not only the United States in its sticky grip, but also the peoples of nations enslaved to the oligarchs who live off of the petrodollars from their leading export. Here's one example of how to liberate ourselves and others, through the use of "soft power," despised by conservatives but a thousand times more effective than all of our military might. And this doesn't even touch on the issue of creating a new economy for the 21st century.
Hopefully, the Deepwater Horizon tragedy in the Gulf will help all of us to wake up and smell the oil--and then resolve to never have to smell it again.
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