Take the GWOT to the Enemy’s Economy

This story is nearly a year old. I was alerted to it by the blog Report on Arrakis. Here is the story.

Robert Zubrin wrote a book in 2007 entitled “Energy Victory.” The book can be purchased at Zubrin’s promotional website EnergyVictory.net. Here is the promotional paragraph on the book:

“Introducing ‘Energy Victory’: a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that the OPEC oil cartel has on our country and the world by best selling author Robert Zubrin”.

I have to be honest I have never heard of Robert Zubrin; nonetheless Kyros of Report on Arrakis got my attention with this short post:

By mandating Flex Fuel Cars, the US Congress can break the oil cartel’s vertical monopoly on the international fuel supply, protecting consumers worldwide from the threat of future unlimited OPEC prices increases, and taking our fate out of the hand’s of terrorism’s financiers.

You have to know why this grabbed my attention. Yes sirree, the price of gas at the pumps. Just imagine having an actual feasible plan to wean Americans away from the oil dependence from a group of people (even if some of the Mohammedan governments pretend to be American friendly) who hate the very air we breathe.

The book “Energy Victory” is probably more relevant now in 2008 than when it was published in 2007. Zubrin has been giving speeches promoting the plan in his book. CSPAN has been running a November 2007 speech. The most recent speech on CSPAN was in April 2008 and can be viewed online at CSPAN’s website.

On Zubrin’s website there is a link to a November 2007 review of “Energy Victory” which gives a glimpse of Zubrin’s plan to throw a monkey wrench into the domination of foreign dependence on suspect friends and obvious American enemies. The science of oil deliverance is a tad beyond my comprehension; ergo you should go to the book review and let me know what you understand taking a stab in the heart of foreign oil.

JRH