Dumb Idea of the Week: Repealing the Gas Tax Because Too Many People Drive Priuses

The Carter doctrine was not oil per se, it came to include oil as a 'strategic asset' during the republican years.

Did it fail ? Who knows, since the alternative was not tried and shown to be worse. AG's argument that oil will always be sold because governments rely on the income ignores the cost of monopoly and supply disruption.

I am inclined to think that if the US is not willing to conserve and transition to alternative supplies, it has not choice but to continue resource wars, meddling in other country's affairs, and propping up dictatorships.