Now we wait for our accumulated bad karma to manifest itself in China slowly (maybe rapidly) eclipsing us as the world's economic power. With Russia and China sharing military exercises, China controlling big aspects of our money, and Iran very clearly allied with both of them -- combined with our being tied down in Iraq and looking more and more impotent all the time, could be the "sole superpower" thing is on the wane.
What we do now is proceed rapidly to halve, then halve again our oil consumption.
You urged me to make a case once for my assertion that we are by far the least energy efficient nation on earth. Here 'tis:
BTW, did you hear that
Mexico's proven reserves will be exhausted in 10 years at current rates of extraction?