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thepatriot:
Really? Why didn't we grab the oil wells in 1992? If Bush wanted to he could have brokered a secret deal with Saddam to sell us oil at $8 a barrel and Saddam would have gone for it. Bush would have been a hero and Saddam would have made money. Money to put towards more weapons of mass destruction to use against our allies and us, although WMD's are questionable.  Does it make sense to spend millions of dollars and waste time and effort of sending troops and military materiel to Iraq to get oil when we can get it much cheaper in Alaska or from Russia?

Anonymous:
We went to war because we needed a way to spend billions of usless dollars fast!  Our economy is based on credit and credit alone.  Spending dollars creates the illusion of wealth and a stable economy.  It is the way of the fiat currency.  

I encourage all of you to get education fast on what fiat currency really is and how it works.  Therein lies the answer to why we do the things we do and the tightrope that we are on at this moment.

kaydeejaded:
we can get it much cheaper in Alaska or from Russia?


ok so can we do that now???? Gas prices are at an all time high

if there is oil by the barrelfull somewhere (other then in Cheney's bunker that is)

can they flood the market now please it takes me 19 dollars to fill up my econo car!
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.


--William Osler
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Antigen:
We can get all the fuel we need even cheaper, by far, from farmers.

The only problem w/ that plan is that a lot of people would make a little on it and the few who now make most on petroleum fuels would get very little, if any. They won't ever let it happen if they can stop it.


You know, too many weirdos out there. At least with you people I know WHY you are weird!!!

Kady
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Anonymous:
We are "civilized slaves."  How many hours do you work a day to feed the ever hungary oil mafia?  (I'm not talking Arabs here.)  The very rich are stealing your money, your time, and your future.  It sounds like slavery to me.  

There have been many attempts to invent alternatives to oil.  One man invented an engine that ran on water.  The process of heating and cooling water in rapid succession does produce power and can be made to work effeciently.  However, that and many other inventions never see the light of day because they do not promote our economy.  Our economy is based on people spending money and resources, not saving and conserving.  We all know what happens to our economy if we don't spend more and more money at Christmas or buy a new car every couple years.  Our economy goes down.  We may have a few more dollars in our savings accounts, but the very rich get hit with their derivatives.  This makes them very unhappy.  In order for them to add to their multi-billion dollar savings accounts, we must spend every dime we have and then some.  We must also spend our children's college funds and our retirement funds.  "Civilized Slavery"

Did we go to war for oil?  I don't think so.  We went to war in order for our government to spend more money.  Think of it this way:  our economy is an engine and it runs on debt and money printed out of thin air.  Well our economic engine has blown a gasket, and we must continue pumping in war debt and personal debt (corporate debt has all but dried up, a telling sign), and our printing presses are running 24/7.   Why don't we replace the gasket?  Because it is not politically popular.  The painful measures would be a sure death to any politition.  In the mean time, foreign governments are looking at our broken down engine for what it is and are looking for a new engine somewhere in China maybe.

If Bush is re-elected, will he take the necessary steps to fix our aged economy?  If he doesn't, that means more war for us.  It is the only way to keep the economic engine running fast enough.

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