How We Solved the "Energy Crisis"

Like most problems, it was mostly the "Washington-think" getting in the way.

We are sitting on an incredible amount of fuel, enough to probably last us centuries. It's been the government laws, rules, and regulations which has been keeping it from being used.

As well, our friends overseas could be using it to improve their own situations - like Natural Gas to those who have been stuck under the Russian Oil Giant as a monopoly.

Nothing like spreading freedom around, like freedom of choice.

I found out from my predecessor that the deal with memorandums is "prosecutorial discretion" (like he refused to defend certain laws, and recommended other ones about illegal immigrants be put on hold.)

So I put out a memorandum that we weren't going to prosecute companies that shipped crude oil, natural gas, and even refined products overseas. And another memorandum said that we weren't going to enforce prices or limits as "supports" for that market.

We were going to be getting our taxes, though - and this made revenues jump, as well as dictators on the other end.

Along with shutting down all banking to any person or company or government operating out of a terrorist-based country (which included Russia, interestingly) - this then pretty much put an end to the Second Cold War.

The other prong which helped create the Global Peace Breakout, was putting our troops out to protect our Ag teaching groups. It seems the real problem all these terrorist countries had is that they destroyed their farming long ago, by destroying the land. So we quickly had to rebuild the soil on their continents - but until it was safe enough, we sent in troops to protect the trainers we sent out there.

And our Navy was busy protecting the trade lanes so shipping was safe. Turned out nations loved having their ports kept open for trade. (As well as sailors with those high-priced dollars in their local shops.)

Oh, and North Korea got no handouts anymore. Period. We tied these humanitarian aid to countries which didn't support terrorism, but did support free trade. That's another story, but part of the Global Peace Breakout. (Meanwhile, as part of our support for friendlies in these terror-ridden areas, we bombed the living hell out of any oil refineries and anything terrorists could make money from - and leaned on the social media to tamp down hate-speech - which of course included terrorists.)

We were busy for quite awhile, just putting out the various brush-fires that had started up. Clean-up was a b*tch.

But what made this easier was not having to go around the country giving speeches to push some odd-ball agenda down everyone's throats. I was visiting the states in the order they joined the Union, and was busy pushing that state's tourism (especially rural areas) when I wasn't busy being pro-freedom to our foreign interests.