U.S. Never to be energy independent?

Saudi royal Prince Turki al-Faisal, said "I'd hope that the general public in the United States would be wiser than to be deceived into thinking that the U.S. can ever be energy independent."

Meanwhile, we Yankees have outlined a plan on how to "eliminate our current imports from the Middle East and Venezuela within 10 Years." The Infidel Insanity (arabspeak for Yankee Ingenuity) includes upping our fuel economy standards by unleashing more than a million plug-in hybrids by 2015. The plan includes "a new $7,000 tax credit for purchasing advanced vehicles" and establishment of a national "low-carbon fuel standard."

Prince Turki is the latest in long line of stellar intellects whom have made other such predictions:

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
"X-rays will prove to be a hoax."
- president of the Royal Society, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

"This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication."
- Unknown executive, Western Union

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine."
- Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
- Decca Records on rejecting the Beatles, 1962

"...the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market."
- Business Week, August 2, 1968

"$100 million dollars is way too much to pay for Microsoft."
- Unknown executive, IBM, 1982

"It is hard for us with, and without being flippant, to even see a scenario within any kind of realm of reason that would see us losing $1 in any of those transactions"
- AIG Financial Products Credit Default Swaps, 2007

[Vista is]"...the safest and most secure OS on the planet today."
- Kevin Turner, chief operating officer for Microsoft, 4/6/2009