“ After that comes state secession phase. With no indigenous energy resources, the USA will not hold together as a nation”
No indigenous energy sources?! Are you joking? (see links below)
Our natural gas supplies alone are nearly 100 years worth based on what’s known right now, today (not based on future undiscovered mines/fields).
Germany is about the size of a large US state (we have 50 of them btw) and Japan is a small island nation.
I can think of plenty of reasons the USA could collapse or fail, but lack of indigenous energy *isn’t* one of them.
I remember back in the 2000s when the doomsday folks were claiming we were at peak oil and by the 2010s we would be facing 20$ a gallon gasoline if we were lucky. Instead when 2014 rolled around we had the largest oil reserves since 1972, a 90% increase since 2008 and fuel prices had dropped significantly (though there is far more to that then simply US production/reserves. I’m just pointing out the failure of the doomsday crowds predictions).
Don’t take this as approval of how the government handles world affairs. We waste massive amounts of money driving around shaking our well armored fist at people/countries. I’d love us to stop doing that, up to and including not wasting money at all in foreign wars (let them handle it on their own).
But running out of energy and collapsing isn’t something that's going to happen in my lifetime, or yours.
