Anyone who follows Illinois energy issues will hear coal lobbyists and their politicians say our state is "the Saudi Arabia of coal." It has become a well worn cliche.
I heard on the Colbert Report that the natural gas industry upped the ante by claiming that America has TWO Saudi Arabias of natural gas.
But I know who can beat them all. America currently possesses INFINITE Saudi Arabias of wind and solar energy. Both coal and natural gas will eventually become more expensive to extract and supplies will run out. But, we'll never run out of the wind and sun. If someday the wind stops blowing and the sun stops shining then the planet won't be able to support human life anyway.
We have two valuable resources we need to extract. Conveniently, no one has to destroy land or poison water supplies while mining wind and solar resources. We don't even have to spend billions on ports, roads, rail lines, and river levies to transport clean energy. Wind and solar come to us!
We can't leave these resources in the air!