Breaking Free of Oil

Robert Spencer reviews a new book by Robert Zubrin, Energy Victory – Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil. It won't be easy, however, as Spencer notes:

Zubrin ... includes a chapter entitled "Corrupting Washington," in which he details how the Saudis have done their best not only to sabotage efforts to wean the U.S. from oil, but also have bought influence in Washington so as to deflect scrutiny of the hollowness of their alliance with the U.S., and to keep American policy moving in a direction that the Saudis find useful. "The Saudis," he declares, "have been looting our economy on a massive scale and are using the proceeds to fund a global war against civilization" -- and he traces the sorry history of the supine American response to this challenge.

Particularly since from my point of view our Saudi overlords are already extracting a jizya tax from an oil-addicted West with every trip to the pump.