Energy independence within a decade -- Terrorism: your gas dollars at work (part 1) -- Corrupting Washington: your gas dollars at work (part 2) -- Focus section: Saudi interventions into US policy -- How to destroy OPEC -- Changing the energy trump suit -- The technology to break OPEC's chains -- The charlatans strike back: the hydrogen and pimentel hoaxes -- The new alcohol economy and world development -- Focus section: alcohol alchemy -- The Brazilian experience -- Focus section: the alcohol economy versus narcoterrorism -- Defeating global warming -- Empowering the future -- Oil and power -- Energy and statecraft.