Juan Cole recommends,  and I agree,  that Exxon should be boycotted

Exxon Mobil is a big behind the scenes player in the Iraq War by virtue of its support for AEI. In fact, I think a boycott of its gas stations is in order until the company cuts off AEI and stops promoting the Iraq War and muddying the waters on global warming. (It pledged to do the latter in the past, but obviously was lying)…..

Since the Pentagon cannot practically speaking hope to safeguard US petroleum supplies from the Gulf, national security requires a massive and rapid research and development program of green energy. A lot of green technology, especially solar, would come down in price rapidly if enough government money were thrown at it. We need to press Congress on this, and maybe Californians can craft some of their famous referendum items.

Source: Informed Comment

It was Reagan who trounced Carter ,  in no small part by contrasting Carter’s call for sacrifice ,discipline , and change regarding oil and energy,  with his own reckless disregard for any notion of the sort and instead promised prosperity and “have it your way”.  How could the American people resist such a promise?  Now,  combine oil dependencies with the Bush administration’s negligent, ignorant, hubristic callousness toward all that they consider “not America”,  the oil addictions and lack of discipline in the American economy to seek radical re-ordering of energy consumption habits and means of energy production have brought us to a “period of consequences”.  Indeed,  this is exactly what Gore says in his award winning An Inconvenient Truth.