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America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality

The article itself is spot on, some of the comments it inspired are not.
1. Panskeptic uses the exceptions to discredit the whole regarding the free market.
2. GlobalWarmingExaminer writes that "spending one trillion in Iraq is destroying our economy." I note that the US military estimates it has killed between 30 to 35 thousand foreign fighters in Iraq-people who have come from outside that country to attack US troops. Perhaps GlobalWarmingExaminer believes those jihadist nutjobs would be sitting around camel dung fires in the desert, holding hands, and singing "Kumbaya" if we abandoned Iraq. It's more logical to assume a great many of them would be attacking US, Western interests elsewhere. One wonders what that would cost in light of the huge drag on the economy and extra expense created by 9/11?
3.barnburner writes that Exxon hasn't cleaned up the mess from the Exxon Valdez spill (he ignores how much they've spent cleaning it up) and that these "idiots," referring to the oil industry, shouldn't be trusted in ANWR. One wonders why barnburner thinks shipping in oil from elsewhere is safer and that we regulate the oil industry so that it behaves responsibly in literally hundreds of other locations.
4. last we come to jjason, the man with all the answers. he wrotes that "OPEC must be broken up, making it illegal." Really? And just how does jjason propose to do that short of a military effort on the scale of WWII?