The U.S. Is Squandering Its Energy Resources

Here’s an author who believes that the U.S., with its appalling failure to establish an energy policy, is squandering its energy resources — and he’s 100% correct.  A good example he raises is natural gas (not that I favor his approach).  If it’s all so cheap and abundant, why are we doing essentially nothing to forward its use as automobile fuel?  The author’s not sanguine on any aspect of government, but seems especially peeved with congressional Republicans, who, he says, “appear determined to handicap vast swaths of the U.S. economy in favor of securing windfall profits for the oil patch.”

Again, this is all completely true, but not exactly “new news.”  It’s perfectly clear that very few people in Washington do anything other than support the interests that put them there.  This corruption, btw, is the mother of all tragedies, i.e., it’s the core force that gives birth to all the other waste, injustice, vitriol, and stupidity that comes streaming out of our nation’s capital.