Oil............

[BlueStreak]

I know that's the reason. So what? Too many Americans are short-sighted and pig-headed.
It's obvious that reasoning with them does not work. The next time the industry
artificially jacks up the price, or fakes another "shortage" to force the damned sheep
into the corporate slaughterhouse, (Most likely to occur during the next Republican
regime.), just remember it has NOTHING to do with what's good for the country or
the future generations.

Any excuse that keeps them from squandering this resource is fine with me.

And, yes, that's right. I am a hypocrite. Both of my vehicles are gas hogs.
I am to some degree, a product of my environment. So there!

Dave

[Charles]

The Republicans? The best I remember, once Shrub said he was going to open up ANWAR and offshore drilling, the oil bubble burst.

I realize that this is a simplistic view of a complicated situation. That said, can I be a Democrat now????????

Chas

[HatchetJack]

Better to be the wolf than the sheep. Well it was until all the leaches showed
up and bled out the wolf. Guess who's next?

[HatchetJack]

Bush had the sheiks bluffed for a while till Big Al's army cryed foul. Bunch of
bozo's

[Charles]

Originally Posted by HatchetJack

Better to be the wolf than the sheep. Well it was until all the leaches showed
up and bled out the wolf. Guess who's next?

Quite simple, my man.

The rich run things to their benefit. The poor have nothing to steal. So the middle class will be robbed.

But if it saves ONE child, who am I to complain.

Chas

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Bingo.

Use up every last drop of theirs before we start drilling our own.

Dave

Dave, I don't think that would do much.

We are all interdependent.

[HatchetJack]

We probably have more oil in Alabama than some of those hotbeds in the
middle east. I think it's safe for now. The bigger issue is fighting to keep the
American dollar high. Our enemies want to sell for euros not dollars. That is
why we are over there. If it was for American oil company profit, obama
would have pulled out by now. He can't pull out because our economy, whats
left of it, needs the dollar to be strong and oil needs to be high so that the
government can continue to feed itself off the oil revenues. With corporate
profits in the toilet, there's not much left. When we trade oil in Dollars, other
countries funnel money through our banks and we all get fat. Bush really
had the best interest of our country by ousting Saddam. But in reality it was
just delaying the total collapse of our dollar and country. We keep printing
money with nothing to back it up and soon we can just wipe our ass with it.

[noonereal]

[QUOTE=HatchetJack;13377]Bush really
had the best interest of our country by ousting Saddam. QUOTE]

How does/did ousting Saddam work toward the best interest of our country?

[HatchetJack]

He threatened to sell his oil for euros. If all of opec were to follow suit, our
outlook is very bleak. We dont have much to offer the rest of the world.
Some are keeping us propped up because of the consumers that we are and
others just keep us around to be the world's police. Iran has now gone to
all euros and the dollar keeps losing ground to it. We are in big trouble.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by noonereal

Dave, I don't think that would do much.

We are all interdependent.

Really? What else to we need the Arabs for?
I know how that sounds, but really?

Dave