In
this compelling argument for a new direction in US energy policy,
world-renowned engineer and best-selling author Robert Zubrin lays out
a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that the OPEC oil
cartel has on our country and the world.
Zubrin presents persuasive evidence that our decades-long relationship
with OPEC has resulted in the looting of our economy, the corruption of
our political system, and now the funding and protection of terrorist
regimes and movements that are committed to our destruction. Debunking
the false solutions and myths that have deterred us from taking
necessary action, Zubrin exposes the fakery that has allowed many
politicians -- including current US president George W. Bush -- to
posture that they are acting to resolve this problem while actually
doing nothing significant toward that goal. Zubrin's plan is
straightforward and practical. He argues that if Congress passed a law
requiring that all new cars sold in the USA be flex-fueled -- that is,
able to run on any combination of gasoline or alcohol fuels -- this one
action would destroy the monopoly that the oil cartel has maintained on
the globe's transportation fuel supply, opening it up to competition
from alcohol fuels produced by farmers worldwide. According to Zubrin's
estimates, within three years of enactment, such a regulation would put
50 million cars on the road in the USA capable of running on
high-alcohol fuels, and at least an equal number overseas.
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Energy Victory
Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil
by Robert Zubrin
Prometheus Books,
2007
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