Editor,
What does environmental science have to do with the recent uprisings in the Middle East?
The technology exists for vehicles that do not consume oil. In fact, mass production of cheap electric cars should have happened decades ago.
And why would giving the people cheap cars that do not use oil harm U.S. foreign policy?
Returning to the recent uprisings in the Middle East, we see that it is oil money that subsidized the region’s dictators and their cronies.
If the American people had been given access to electric cars, then how would these oil dictators pay security forces?
It is also a well-known fact that, in many cases, poverty creates unity. If those countries’ leadership had not been rolling in the oil dough, then these revolutions would have taken out the trash a long time ago.
Next time you cringe at gas prices, please remember that this country’s elites could have sold you gas-free vehicles a long time ago, but their refusal is based on support for oppression in the Middle East.
Muhajir Romero
UNM student
