If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then . . . By Victor Davis Hanson

[mystery-ak]

If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then . . .
It would be hard to imagine any planned agenda to destroy America that would have been as injurious as what we already suffered the last two years. 
By Victor Davis Hanson
November 30, 2022

First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. 

Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand. 

Make war on coal and nuclear power. Drain the strategic petroleum reserve to make the pain for consumers more bearable for midterm election advantage.

Cancel the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas field. Block pipelines like the Keystone oil pipeline and the Constitution natural gas line.

Overregulate and demonize frackers and horizontal drillers. Ensure there is less investment for their exploration and production. 

Make use of internal combustible engines or fossil fuel power generation prohibitively expensive. Achieve a green oil-dependency along the lines of contemporary Europe.

Second, print trillions of dollars in new currency as the lockdowns end, demand rises, and consumers are already saturated with COVID-19 subsidies. Keep interest rates low, well below the rate of inflation, as you print more money. Ensure that passbook holders earn no interest at the very time prices skyrocket to the highest per annum level in 40 years. 

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[Free Vulcan]

This has been a long train running. The electrification project by FDR during the depression sure seemed like a good thing, but it also resulted in a great amount of consolidation and centralization that has made 'the grid' vulnerable to what this article discusses.

Back in the day people either generated their own, or towns would have a little municipality like my great-grandfather ran over a hundred years ago now. In addition to fuel oil, you'd see wind, methane, water, woodgas, even geothermal or Tesla type stuff. People were creative.

Same with fuel. Back in the 50's you could buy a JD 40 or 50 all-fuel tractor that would run on almost any hydrocarbon. Farmers would make alcohol, methanol, or some other exotic.

Was it cheaper? No. Was it more efficient? Probably not. But it was self-sufficient, and was invulnerable to what is happening today. And while I don't encourage the govt to do it, I do encourage private citizens to do it any way they can and reduce dependence of the govt system.