re: #26 treasured people

Huh? It doesn’t really matter. It might lower the price of oil a bit, but it won’t have enough of an effect to seriously cut into the cash-flow of those regimes. And since oil is fungible, it won’t make the US any more likely to spurn Saudi Arabia for its anti-Semitism.

Besides, Israel is a nation very, very vulnerable to AGW, so promoting oil and gas use is a definite double-edged sword for them. Luckily, Israel is taking the lead in many forms of alternative energy.

It’d be really awesome if the new energy age came from Israeli technology. A fitting end to this cold war.