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I grew up the son of an oil executive. Consequently, my father was also an attorney whose job it was to negotiate contracts with foreign powers. Issues involving the international struggle for light crude and natural gas infrastructure are not foreign to me.

Let’s look at Blue Girls perspective on international conflict and energy.

100 Bucks a Barrell

I’ve said it before, and I will say it again…we are witnessing a realignment of world economic and political power, and it is realigning along an energy axis, and future historians are going to write about the time in which we live as the “Emergence of the Resource Wars.”

If we don’t get a handle on this stuff, and do so double-time, the future is bleak. If you like the oil wars, you are gonna love the pending water wars.

It’s what the radical right has been saying behind closed doors for some time. By closed doors, I mean hardliner political gatherings…no recordings.

From the radical rights perspective - WE NEED TO RELEASE OURSELVES FROM THE GRIPS OF INTERNATIONAL ENERGY DEPENDENCE.

Blue Girl’s alliance with the hard right is accidental but the stark reality the same.

For the Missouri economy, biodiesel from soybeans is our most viable alternative energy. Back to Blue Girl…

There is a new reality in town. The countries producing energy are sitting in what is commonly known as “the catbirds seat.” But the US? Not so much. The oil-rich countries, like Russia and Iran, are not going to be cowed by Yankee bluster any more. They have oil, and the emerging Asian economies have an insatiable appetite for the sticky black stuff, and the odorless clear stuff. The desperation of the Bush Administration as the reality about Iran sets in is growing palpable.

The Bush administration is desperate to stop the long-planned India-Pakistan-I ran (IPI) Pipeline, which will deliver Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) to the subcontinent. The U.S. would much prefer that India satisfy their energy needs with nuclear energy via a deal with the United States that has been stalled. Never mind that Indo-Persian relations are over 2000 years old, that Persian was the language of literature and government on the subcontinent until the 1800’s. (But these jokers have no use for history, sociology nor anthropology.)

The United States seems bent on clinging to obsolete modes of thinking. It simply makes no sense to invest all of our blood and treasure into securing what’s left of a swindling resource. Which, by the way, is so chemically unique and versatile, that I am nonplussed that it is simply burned for fuel! Of course, I understand why…it’s greed. If you make electric cars that don’t burn petrol, every soccer mom in America wouldn’t be forking over a hundred bucks a week to Big Oil. It’s drug-dealer economics - get ‘em addicted and they keep coming back, until they are either dead or desperate enough to go through the pain and agony of cold-turkey withdrawal.

The reality is we have other energy alternatives here in the United States. The limiting factor is infrastructure not resource.

As for the water wars, I believe in man’s ability to create solutions through technology.