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Cheap Gas=Unnatural Capitalism
Don Quijote wrote:
"Bald Headed John Kane" wrote in message . .. On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 12:25:38 -0700, Don Quijote wrote: " -M.L. King What people don't realize is our military (US) costs are huge to ensure cheap oil, they only look at the pump price and bitch about taxes. That's right, you pay a price, one way or another... Honest Accounting -- The Real Cost of Going to War With Iraq Colonel Daniel Smith, USA (Ret.) October 31, 2002 (snip) One question that is almost never asked is how much does "cheap oil" really cost U.S. snip http://webspawner.com/users/donquijo...er.com/users/- donquijote It's refreshing to have the argument quantified. These costs could be considered as subsidies to the oil corporations. Now we see in concrete terms how corporations could not function without the nanny state and the tribute it extracts from us. Then to add insult to injury we have an administration that was not elected bent on setting up a police state to make sure the game stays the same. If anyone wonders what fascism looks like in America, look around you. -- -------------------------- Posted via cyclingforums.com http://www.cyclingforums.com |
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Cheap Gas=Unnatural Capitalism
"DurangoKid" wrote in message ... Don Quijote wrote: "Bald Headed John Kane" wrote in message . .. On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 12:25:38 -0700, Don Quijote wrote: " -M.L. King What people don't realize is our military (US) costs are huge to ensure cheap oil, they only look at the pump price and bitch about taxes. But it's quite silly. OPEC doesn't keep oil cheap because of US miliary might, they keep it cheap because it is in THEIR interest. Why?!? Because they are afraid that high oil prices will lead to conservation, to greater investment in energy efficiency, to the development of alternate sources of energy, etc. Which, of course, is exactly what high oil prices would do. The war in Iraq isn't going to make Iraqi oil cheaper -- the US (and everybody else) are *still* going to have to buy it at market rates. And in the short term, of course, the war has reduced the flow of oil from Iraq to a trickle which, of course, does not tend to lower prices. To the extent that the war was about oil, it was about it in the sense that it is dangerous to let a brutal nut case like Saddam Hussein have access to a huge stream of oil money. We (and/or Europe and/or Japan) are going to be paying that money to Iraq regardless of the outcome of the war, but now it won't be going to Saddam (and definitely not to Uday and Qusay) to support their police state, torture and execute their citizenry and acquire weaponry to threaten the Middle East. Mark |
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