FDR wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Buck Turgidson wrote

Imagine the 300 billion (probably end up close to 600 billion)
used for alternative energy research instead of spending it
on the war, Halliburton, etc. Had we spent the money there,
we wouldn't need these sultans, emirs, ayatollahs, etc.

Bull****. You cant change the basics physics by throwing money at it.

Yeah, you can't build a fission weapon out of Uranium by throwing
money at it. You can't get electricity from nuclear material by
throwing money aat it. . Oh wait, we did in both cases....

We've already spent that sort of money on 'alternative energy research'
and discovered as a result of that that while its quite viable in some
situations like off the grid power, but aint ever gunna do much about
what we get from those 'sultans, emirs, ayatollahs, etc'