Our economy runs on fossil fuels.  Oil, coal and natural gas are crucial to powering our factories, our computers, our military, our cars, our homes, etc...  If there was any disruption in the supply of fossil fuels, our economy would be effected in major ways.

We see examples of this as the market responds to the price of oil and events in the Middle East.  We see this in the investments being made in natural gas. 

We all know the market would respond poorly…