The fossil fuels still in the ground constituted an energy reserve that would serve America well in an emergency.
Once those are gone, what will we use? Anything from overseas is vulnerable to embargo or destruction.
What will we use? Steam-powered vehicles? Some power source as envisioned in Star Trek? Wishful thinking? Wind and solar will help, but not enough to maintain the economy as we know it.
The fossil fuels still in the ground constituted an energy reserve that would serve America well in an emergency.
Once those are gone, what will we use? Anything from overseas is vulnerable to embargo or destruction.
What will we use? Steam-powered vehicles? Some power source as envisioned in Star Trek? Wishful thinking? Wind and solar will help, but not enough to maintain the economy as we know it.