Is the nuclear bomb responsible for the American middle-class

A lot of ppl say the key to wealth is real property: the threat of nuclear annihilation force ppl to spread along a 2D plane over a 3D blast (remind us of something). For purposes of convenience, ownership was better in a house type. It wasn't the car (or was it)? Think about it. Ford made cars in the 20s and we didn't grow as much suburbs as we do now. The energies of preservation overcame other inertias.

Yet another Doomsday scenario (not really)

So this is like Octopussy. What if a terrorist explodes a nuclear bomb near a central oil refinery in Saudi Arabia. The shock would reverberate thru the pipelines, starting fires and destroying a good piece of the world's energy infrastructure. Of course, the stock market will crash, the economy would be crippled for a lack of energy. Meanwhile, a simultaneous threat to do the same on a G8 nation (probably a city) is made. So, ppl would panic and attempt to flee the cities. The threat creates the vicious downward cycle as the same instrument of distribution needed to spread out is at a shortage; in effect disabling the G8 nations current state of existence.

This is a safer alternative to bombing a city for the terrorists and brings us back to the Octopussy theme. The oil fields are nuked, who is the US going to bomb; Saudi Arabia??? The terrorists win because forces would have to be mobilized for the state of emergency in the homelands. This may take months. And the world is not the same again.

Suggestion to Boone Pickens

Boone,

Since we seem unmotivated to make a nat gas infrastructure (maybe due to Saudi oil influences), consider investing in a Chinese nat. gas infrastructure. The deferments equal the same benefits to the environment and creates jobs. While we would still have to protect Saudi interests, that's just how they want it. It's ok since we need to defer Iranian nuclear interests. We just don't want Chinese interests there nor do I believe the Saudi's want it. They prefer American protection.