The perils of bowing to kings

There IS a way and it is shocking in its ease and simplicity. Former NASA rocket scientist and nuclear engineer Robert Zubrin has zeroed in on the one weak spot in the oil-for-jihad colossus and come up with a brilliant rifle-shot plan to destroy it, which he explains is his book "Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil."

The idea is to mandate that all new cars sold in America (not just made, SOLD, to include imports) be fully flex-fueled: able to run not just on gasoline but also on any alcohol fuel. This would cost automakers about $130 per car - hardly onerous - and the technology already exists and is real-world tested and reliable. (In fact about 3% of cars already are flex fuel vehicles, although they are certified only for ethanol rather than also including methanol and other alcohols.)

With about 10% of the nation's vehicle fleet being bought new each year, this would make a substantial portion of cars on the road alcohol-compatible within just a few years - enough of a market share for alcohol to become a routinely available option at gas stations. And with foreign automakers switching their production lines to flex fuel to retain access to the US market (and not bothering to retain gasoline-only for their own market due to the small price difference between them and the big expense of redundancy), flex-fuel becomes the global standard everywhere and gasoline faces competition everywhere.

Without a monopoly the Saudis (and OPEC which they control) can no longer charge all that the traffic will bear and then some because people will simply buy alcohol instead. This puts a low cap on oil prices given the inherently low cost of alcohol (especially methanol). If OPEC seeks to flood the market to temporarily crash the price and drown alcohol in its crib, tax or tariff oil to keep alcohol price-attractive.

This strangles the Saudis' ability to fund their lazy (only 1 in 6 works, the rest free to idle in brothels or extremist mosques) decadent extravagant lifestyle, their lavish welfare system, their worldwide madrassa and propaganda network, and terror, not to mention also putting a serious crimp in the money supply of the Iranian nuclear bomb, Chavez-style Hezbollah-friendly narco-Marxism, etc. The poor babies.

Best of all when the time they hold our economy hostage (where every uptick in tensions causes vital fuel prices to spike, stock markets to fall, and wealth to vanish) is over, we will be more free to credibly threaten force to back up our hitherto useless pleading that they knock it off.

Barack Obama's seeming bow before King Abdullah

Please! There is no seeming here! You all remember the classical Solomon Asch experiment - how many inches!?

Saudi-funded madrasas from Bangladesh, to Bosnia and Herzegovina, to Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Spain, and even in the United States.

In Uzbekistan, Wahabism is forbidden by law. And it is called just that "Wahabism". IN fact in nearly all of Central Asia and Russia, the term is now negative. Of course in Tashkent, one is prosecuted for being a Wahabi. I suppose this is absolutely reasonable.

As for even in the United States. Please, Central Park Mosque in London, is Wahabi territory. Please, the head of Austria's Islamic council is also the Saudi cultural minister. CAIR, and nearly all other organisations, take enormous sums of money from the Saudis.

Look, the Saudi's are open about it. 85 billion dollars to support "Wahabism" worldwide, since the eighties.

They litigate you if you try to expose the bastards who do the funding, and if you try to trace it. Three books at minimum, have been marginalized by them through legal terrorism.

Nor should these maniacs have Medina and Mecca. Let's be clear here, it belongs to the Hashemites, and the Wahabis as you entirely omit to point out, are not loved by Muslims in the Hejaz, for very very solid reasons. Because control of Medina and Mecca has given the Saudi's the legitimacy that Wahabism seeks.

I think you are wrong to posit, that Medica and Mecca, and oil are somehow ok here. They are not. It's precisely the mix, that' makes the Saudi's explosive.

As for being at the top of OPEC. No, you are wrong. Taken together, the Saudi's rule the GCC. There you account for over half of OPEC holdings. Iran and Venezuela, were much more maleable. Although Iran is proof, that Wahabism isn't the only problem Islam has. But that's another story.

By the way, the problem cannot be reduced to Wahabism, but readers deserve more information - about the Wahabi funding of Deobandism, and just why Pakistans ISI is full of them, and collaborating since the 80ties with Taleban... the tale is too large to be told in one post. Please, run a serious expose!!

Anyway, bravo for a brave first. Hopefully you've got some more Mr Luft?

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PS. I hope FP will let us know if some Saudi reps harass you for this post. I am sure that would have happened with the slightest move by AIPAC on Chas Freeman stories. So let's be fair please.

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