Om

Man, we are really inundated these days with the notion that we've got to liberate ourselves from "foreign oil" or the slightly less objectionably ridiculous "foreign sources of energy," as if fungible, combustible commodities carry passports and political aspirations. Like, oh, if only we could stop importing oil and close the Arizona border we could live in some sort of splendid, sequestered isolation . . . Bhutan with big-screen TVs and Grand Slam breakfasts.