America's enslavement to oil became obvious from 1974 to 1980 when the expenditures (in million dollar units) more than tripled from 24,668 to 78,637 units1. The twenty years that followed have seen the prices "plunge" into the mid thirty thousand ranges only twice, in 1986 and 1988, just to soar to 2000's spending of 119,251million dollars1. They keep raising the price tag and we keep buying more.

Politically speaking, they have the United States by the balls and they aren't letting go. The slightest provocation, usually due to humanitarian reasons on our part, causes the oil pimps to squeeze a little harder; the economy becomes strained, and the vast majorities of our citizens are in an uproar. The threat of l

Rather than my preferred method of committing to a full-scale military investment, a Capitalistic judo move might be just as effective. As you know, Capitalism is based on a supply and demand economy. Reduce the demand, and the supply becomes surplus.

The largest obstacle will be short-term economic friction caused by the transformation from fossil fuels to green bio-fuels. Large tax incentives might quell the uproar of the masses during their episodes of "delusional detoxification". It might be wise to launch a large public relations campaign focusing on the benefits of switching fuels.

The long-term benefits will leverage the United States as a key model in the Kyoto Treaty, and create a new economy as the production of bio-fuel increases. It is an important point to keep in focus the fact that every dollar spent on homegrown bio fuel is a dollar that is invested in our nation's economy.

osing our country's steady supply of oil creates a rather volatile element to our socio-economic infrastructure2.

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