Local conference's speaker talks of 'winning play' in energy crisis

Pantagraph.com (Bloomington, IL)
By Michelle Koetters mailto:Koettersmkoetters@pantagraph.com

BLOOMINGTON -- Best-selling author Robert Zubrin's answer to the world energy crisis comes down to a card game strategy. In cards, a trump suit can defeat all others.

The same is true with fuels, only the suits are oil, coal, natural gas and biomass, said Zubrin, author of “Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil” and the featured speaker for the Illinois Commodity Conference in Bloomington.

“Right now, oil is the trump suit. … Oil is the suit in which the enemy is long and we are short,” Zubrin said Tuesday. “To win the game, you’ve got to change the trump suit. That’s the winning play.”

If biomass became trump, the United States would be in excellent shape, Zubrin said. To make that change, Congress should pass a law that every new car sold in the United States be a flex-fuel vehicle, he said.

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