Actually right now US is not dependent on Saudi. Thanks to shale revolution it is now a net exporter.
Though, yeah that still pollutes and it didn’t remove our allies’ dependence so. The green tech should have been the next step.
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AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 day agomy dad once said that if he was in Bush’s position, he would have used 9/11 to justify decoupling from Saudi oil and push for more solar and wind development
I still think about that. So many missed off-ramps to this…
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
The tech wasn’t there yet
kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was mostly there for windmills. One of the first big US windmills was built by Charles Brush … one of the early NYC electricity pioneers … over a century earlier. Dependency on oil (political) kept people from realizing how much free energy (fuel) the Sun sends us. WAY more than we can use.
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
If the US has tried that, SA would have tanked the dollar.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Perhaps. At the same time, we also had a better reputation then. A lot of countries were quick to jump on board when we decided who was gonna get invaded. Maybe they would have been just as eager to pull together and go green? Not that we’ll ever really know, of course.