I don't know why I didn't come up with this before, but the proper name for our illegal war should be Liraq. Another good laugh today is the idea that a tax on gas is needed to make energy markets work correctly, this after years and millions in bribes paid to deregulate, which means no taxation, energy markets in particular. Poor neoliberalcons just don't know what to do.

Finding money to aggressively fund primary energy sources like wave, wind and solar can be easily done by eliminating most of our "national security state" and all subsidies to the current "energy" industry. My conservative estimation is about 1 Trillion dollars annualy would then be available. That's right, "projecting" our Empire consumes half the federal budget. Zero dollars in the federal budget go to the promotion of peace, as peaceful pursuits have always operated as euphemisms for Empire projection or PR.