#36 wws

Yes indeed. We have lots of natural gas, and it can be converted into gasoline with a cost of about $25 per barrel.

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21261/page1/

This would provide jobs here that couldn’t be exported and it would make us energy independent at least. We might even become an energy exporter, who knows?

You must have cheap and reliable energy in order to have a modern industrial economy. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool.

But there are powerful interests who don’t want prosperity for the US, both foreign and domestic. Currently our worst enemies are home grown. People who are prosperous don’t need nanny’s to tell them what to do. They tend to resent it. And what is a nanny to do if their services become obsolete?