A disgusting ignorant statement, you have no idea what you are talking about.

Its was short sighted, we could have been cutting edge leaders in the energy of the future, but we let oil refiners convince us that it was in our best interest to let China and others take that mantle. Now we lag behind. We could have used renewable technology and sanctions against hydrocarbon energy to shape the emerging markets of the world but noooooo let all that soft power slip away so oil barons can get more money. Oil was extremely expensive for all of us we just haven’t seen the true bill yet.

Im struggling to see if you are serious and you don’t see how utterly stupid that question is or if you are playing the fool for comical reasons.

It was more profitable.

Why did we send a generations worth of our wealth to these people instead of developing solar and wind?

So women can play chess without the added mental burdens that come along with being a women in a male dominated space.