In Your Heart, You Know It's Got to Be Done
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With so much thought given to the strategic value of Middle-east petroleum at the highest levels of governmental planning following the Second World War, when the dire assertion that oil be under Western control for the benefit of Western economies, why did no one think to pursue an alternative to the anticipated dependency on petroleum?
Did planners actually have the hubris think that establishing and maintaining control over the governments of the Gulf States and Southwest Asia for generations was going to be an easy task?
Did any of the planners in Truman's or Eisenhower's administrations consider that perennial control of the region was even a remote likelihood?
Furthermore, in light of the decades of violence in the Middle-east and the calamitous conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, why has no one in the inner sanctums of power of either major party had the wisdom to aggressively advocate and establish funding for safe, alternative energy sources?
Where is the Apollo Project for hydrogen power, solar, tidal, geo-thermic and other viable, clean energy sources?
Please do NOT phrease your answers in teh form of a question.
