Truth is the US Department of Energy should've anticipated the peak in oil production. It should've, BY NOW, come up with alternative energy sources and, at this stage of the game, when every country in the world is going to be getting into wars to secure some oil, we should've implemented some type of energy program that did not expose us to all this mumbo jumbo.
As we all know, it did not happen this way. The US Department of Energy dropped the ball BIG TIME. BIG FUCKING TIME. This department, it's now extra obvious, is a rat hole for all Big Oil executives. These peoples have spent many dollars and efforts into blocking any financing/aid to anything that remotely smelled like alternative energy development. And this has led to the predicament we're in now.
Instead of having developed (and implemented) a mix of alternative energies we're fighting all over the world for oil. Our own people are dying so that these rich cock suckers/scum of this earth can have their cheap gallon of gasoline (their definition of patriotism).
Bottom line is, by now, we should've been mere spectators to all these wars and conflicts, 100 years ahead of everyone else in alternative energy sources, and anything beyon the TV. Bottom line is WE ARE NOT. And it is because of the corporations, their shortsightedness and little regard for the long term wellbeing of everyone else except them.
That;s the way I see it.