There is heavy debate as to who owns the rights to distribute, pump and sell the oil as it spans across 3 or 4 countries. This debate sparks the unrest that causes the ignorant masses to spout the unrealistic ideals that by removing the dependence on foreign oil we would be reducing the power that those unbalanced nations have on us.
This is false, because other than wind turbines, all other forms of energy generation requires other components that are equally as rare and found in roughly the same areas. Compounds like lithium, all your complex-named chemicals to make solar, that kind of shit (I group as "rare-earth") is just as hard to come by. And guess where the largest supply of it is....Afghanistan!
So to me, the arguments that say "reducing our dependence on foreign oil is a matter of national security" is just ridiculous. But as I digress, that isn't the topic of this discussion.
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