Me antisemitic? Guilty as charged – Arabs are Semites. Not all Jews are.

Americans not buying as much oil will not change bin Laden’s mind? Correct. However, less of a market for oil means either a lower price or lower sales – in either case, less money for Jihad.

The business about methane clathrates – well maybe, although there are some in marginal spots that might be vulnerable. Possibly more important, there is also a very large amount oof methane locked up in Arctic permafrost – which is receding, thus releasing the methane. Use of natural gas for energy is irrelevant to this for at least two reasons – the methane would not be released for a very long time if ever without human help, from deposits thousands of feet down – and I challenge anyone to find a way of collecting the methane from millions of square miles of tundra for this purpose.

What to do? Simple. Invest in alternative energy – the sorts that actually work economically, or might. Polywell and focus fusion, OTEC, pebble-bed nuke, wave power, SSPS. And stop wasting the stuff – most of the ways of doing that are easy, and a lot aren’t being used enough.

Once done, mine the Persian Gulf, blow up all pipelines leading out of that area – and let the jihadists find out whether oil is edible.