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JamesMichael
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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

0 posted 2008-03-24 07:33 AM


Business As Usual

"Saudi Arabia and OPEC told President Bush just last week that they won't increase oil production inorder to meet our demands and lower our costs."

Concerning terrorism, after stirring up the hornets nest, the Liberals solution is to run and hide.  Well I have some news for everyone;  our enemies know where we live and they know how to get to us.  In fact terrorism, or should I say Radical Islam is financed by gasoline and oil profits, which are high and rising.  Everytime a gas tank is filled, the Countries that have vast oil reserves, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Russia, get a little richer and we get a lot poorer.  These Countries have every reason in the world to keep the prices high.
Some of the reaons; they don't like us, they like money, they dispise us and they are greedy.  So as usual, pull up to the gas pumps in you big trucks, vans and SUV's and fill you addicted bellies with a fresh dose of liquid honey, the terrorist need to have fresh pots of money to build their bombs and achieve their goals. If you want to stop this flow of green, you can if you are willing to park your SUV's and ride public transportation.  We could make it a requirement to take public transportation to our Malls that are full of cheap goods manufactured in China, who find the high profits of their cheap labor useful to modernize their Military.

"China can't believe their good fortune, to be the
recipient of American manufacturing plants just at
the right moment to modernize their Country and
finance their Military."

If we stopped buying so much gasoline by utilizing car pooling and public transportation, both demand and prices would go down.  One way to use less gas would be to make special lanes on the freeways and switch to electric carts. We could more aggresively pursue different avenues of alternative energy.  We could place a surcharge on fuel guzzling vehicles to discourage there use, and in turn decrease the money that is going to oil producing Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and Russia who grow rich on our dependency while despising our excessive consumption.  Or will it be business as usual?

"Russia has no desire for the price of a barrel of oil to decrease, as they are a top supplier of barrels of oil, and are richly benefiting from the higher prices."

JamesLee
24March
2008

[This message has been edited by JamesMichael (03-25-2008 05:09 PM).]

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Reborn
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since 2008-04-01
Posts 13

1 posted 2008-04-03 03:56 PM


Face it, we got check mated on this whole oil thing and there is nothing ethical of fair that we can do about it. Let me explain why. Those other countries are entitled to raise the price of their oil. It is their oil. They own the oil. It's coming out of their land. They have the right to raise the price as high as they want to.  It's not their fault that we have positioned ourselves so that without oil everything shuts down over here.

But what angers me is the notion that these countries that are getting richer off of oil profits will somehow use their money to attack us one day.  This is fear mongering at its sleaziest. In America there is this crazy idea that these countries with oil will use their new found wealth to either build a nuclear bomb to blow us up, or to deploy an unstoppable evil army to rape our women, eat our food, and watch our TV, or force our women to wear sheets and force our men to only have sex when their married.  The fact is, the countries would much rather sit back and get richer and enjoy their money to themselves rather that start some sort of war and destroy the source of their wealth.  Is it any wonder that all the countries in the world that sell us oil are almost on our bad list? Is it any wonder that it’s the countries with oil that we fear some sort of retribution from?  The only thing we can really do is utilize alternative fuels and figure out other ways to maybe barter countries to lower their price.

Either way, we're screwed on this one and it's nobody's fault but our own.

JamesMichael
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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
2 posted 2008-04-03 05:18 PM


Reborn thanks for the nice response...James
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