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Because lobby

The day you come up with infinite and free aboundant energy will be the day you put to bankruptcy both the US, the Middle East and Russia, and they don't want that

But it's in the plan anyways, we are getting the taste of it right now, globally

Bonus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeoeJyJmN4&t=455s




That sounds just like hand wringing over killing off the buggy whip industry. Markets are disrupted sometimes, people cope.


Yeah, US is not oil-export dependent in any way.


US depend on everyone using the petro dollar

Saddam Hussein got the fate he got because he wanted to use Euro instead to trade their energy

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/feb/16/iraq.theeur....

The moment people can be self sufficient in everything will be the moment the US collapses

By collapse i mean their position of global hegemony, they'll end up becoming a normal country

Same for Ghadaffi, he wanted a unique currency for Africa




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