Thus showing that Gore hasn’t a bloody clue how the world has actually panned out over the last few centuries and why.
The Space Race was cooked up by the military industrial complex as a derivative of the arms race, just another means of maintaining power and profit. And there’s a reasonable chance we never went to the moon. Or that we did go, but all the pictures and video we’ve seen are fake.
It would collapse the US economy, which needs an international oil trade to maintain the demand for the dollar as a currency. Of all the oil producing countries in the world, less than 10 of them trade that oil in a currency that isn’t the US dollar. The price of oil is determined in dollars.
Like I say, Gore hasn’t a clue, because he doesn’t grasp the economics. Of course, he’s a socialist, or at least an American socialist (i.e. someone calling himself a liberal who has no great ties to what Europeans mean by liberalism or socialism), so he wouldn’t grasp the economics.
Theoretically, yes. There’s enough oil and gas within the US’s immediate grasp that they could survive of it for at least another century, possibly much longer. But it won’t happen, because of the economics around oil.
Unless the plan is to dump the dollar, replace it with the Amero, and create a North American Union.
In truth, the odds are much greater (a break from an oil based economy would see a much more radical shift in American/Western life than a rather suspect image of an astronaut delivering his lines impeccably.
The Federal Reserve, the IMF and the World Bank. The oil companies, the government and the resultant mindset of most people are all in league with these financial institutions, but they aren’t running the show.
I suppose in terms of practicality, it’s probably the government, because they’ve got the legislative power to at least delay any change they don’t want, if not stop it completely.
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This has been a common technology in Europe for decades. Got cows? 