It is ironic that an administration fixated on the risks of Middle East oil has chosen to spend hundreds of billions—potentially trillions—of dollars to pursue unsuccessful military approaches to problems that can and should be solved at vastly lower cost, through R&amp;D, regulation, and market incentives. The biggest energy crisis of all, it seems, involves the misdirected energy of a US foreign policy built on war rather than scientific discovery and technological progress.
一个一门心思想要降低中东石油风险的政府选择了耗费数千亿——甚至可能达到数万亿——美元，推行并不成功的军事行动来解决问题，而这些问题本来可以并且应该通过相对低廉的成本、研发、管理和市场激励解决。这真是极大的讽刺！看来，最严重的能源危机在于美国外交政策错误地将精力放在战争上，而不是放在科学发现和技术进步上。