Solve the terror problem by eliminating the money they use to spread terror

Make oil obsolete

I agree with most of @DrYuriMom for the long term energy plan.
For the short term I support florida oil (biased due to job security)
<https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2018/11/15/fl-offshore-natural-gas-and-oil-reserves-could-provide-billions-in-revenue>

Wind and solar are complete fails/scams/boondoggles because of intermittency; if they're not dispatchable, they don't even count as electrical grid supply. Transition to H2 is a complete fail because of all the pre-existing infrastructure for distributing room temperature-liquid transportation fuels. Biofuel production is a complete fail because it can't be scaled up to match industrial petrochemical refining processes.

A trillion dollars could solve the H2 issues you mention. That's how much we've spend on the Iraq boondoggle, and counting...

We're already moving CNG around

That's a trillion dollars wasted to try to convert a transportation system that already runs on liquid fuels.

Just replace CNG/Propane with H2

Is it wasted when the result helps us impoverish the people who hate us?

If we're going to spend the money anyway, spend it in a way that actually solves the problem.

Make oil obsolete

But that's just my perspective on it

I absolutely respect your learned view, devpav

You think a trillion dollars is enough to retrofit (assuming that's possible) 270 million cars to run on H2 instead of liquid fuels?

No. I think it'd have to happen over time as new cars replaced old.

That would give time for the infrastructure to be built. It'll take time for all the nuke plants and surge capacity and H2 generating plants.

But 9/11 was 17 years ago. Imagine if we'd started this conversion back then? We'd be well on our way to weaning ourselves off oil and, with European and Japanese cooperation doing the same thing, cutting off the fuel for Islamic terror - oil money.

If we'd left Saddam in power, we likely would never have seen ISIS

And therefore the Syrian Civil War and the newly activist Iran would have been avoided or blunted

Obama rather intentionally allowed ISIS to grow.

Oh? How so?

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Electric cars didn't take off til there was that oil crisis awhile back

ISIS was created by Obama's pullout from Iraq and neglect afterwards.

where gas was like 6 bucks a gallon at the cheapest

The economic breakeven gas price for electric cars is something like $10/gal.

Yes, but i thoguht this was about oil

We should never have been in Iraq to begin with other than enforcing no fly zones to keep Saddam hobbled.

wow, the message rate in this channel is limited

Middle Eastern politics isn't about the pure economics of oil.

HW should've deposed Saddam in 1991.

Obama did what he felt he was mandated to do by the 2008 elections in handling a mess that was handed to him

Obama used his mandate to make the mess 100x worse.

Obama was elected to get us out of Iraq

He learned that wasn't possible

If HW had done that in 1991 he would have lost the coalition that made what we were there for legal

There also was no planning for what to do with an occupied Iraq and the time

Wouldn't we have ended up with the same mess, just 12 years earlier?

The Shia/Sunni/Kurd mess would have erupted the same way unless we'd somehow decided to install another Sunni secularist strongman and propped him up like we did Saddam.

Whose interests are even served by maintaining Iraq as one nation when it is in fact 3?

The destruction of the Iraqi military during their retreat from Kuwait should have been completed, and that should've been the end of coalition use of force. No 'no fly zone'.