num_pages: 336
description: In this compelling argument for a new direction in US energy policy world-renowned engineer and best-selling author Robert Zubrin lays out a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that the OPEC oil cartel has on our country and the world. Zubrin presents persuasive evidence that our decades-long relationship with OPEC has resulted in the looting of our economy the corruption of our political system and now the funding and protection of terrorist regimes and movements that are committed to our destruction.Zubrins plan is straightforward and practical. He argues that if Congress passed a law requiring that all new cars sold in the USA be flex-fueledthat is able to run on any combination of gasoline or alcohol fuelsthis one action would destroy the monopoly that the oil cartel has maintained on the globes transportation fuel supply opening it up to competition from alcohol fuels produced by farmers worldwide. According to Zubrins estimates within three years of enactment such a regulation would put 50 million cars on the road in the USA capable of running on high-alcohol fuels and at least an equal number overseas. He further advocates tariff policies favoring alcohol over petroleum imports.Energy Victory offers an exciting vision for a dynamic new energy policy which will not only go a long way toward safeguarding homeland security in the future but will also provide solutions for global warming and Third World development.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil
publisher: Prometheus