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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I supported invading Iraq long before we actually did. The fundemental underlying reason was oil. I would often say I supported the invasion because of the need for stability in the Middle East. But the only reason I cared about stability in the Middle East was because of the oil. I never thought people didn't understand that. When Sadaam invaded Kuwait it was because he wanted to control the oil in Kuwait, and we came to Kuwaits defense because of the oil or "stability in the Middle East" I didn't think there was any doubt. If there was no oil we would not of cared, or at least not me - about getting rid of Sadaam. Sadaam wanted military power to control Middle East oil, he was a threat because he threatened the stability in the Middle East, in other words he was a threat to America. He knew it and we knew it, and it was all about oil. Our American life-style depends on oil. I am willing to fight to defend my life-style as have many others. Those who are not willing to fight to defend our oil dependant life-style should sell the rest of us on the alternative.
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You may have known, but why did this president's administration work so hard to sell Iraq as being part of 9/11, dangerous to us and having WMD's????? None of which were true.
It's not up to those who want alternative fuels to "try to sell their ideas to the rest of us"..... It's up to the car companies, the oil companies and so on to RELEASE the patents they bought up, stole, extorted and so on.
American car companies are going to die very painfully (and so is this country's economy) when the Japanese and other foreign car makers really push out the hybrids and electric cars. It'll be interesting to see how the leadership of this country will prevent massive imports and sales of hybrids.
It will also be interesting to see those people who favor a "laissez faire" business government react to the government protection of the big oil companies. How will they react to the laws that are going to be passed that will prevent or push hybrids and electric cars into legal messes?
How is this government going to react when they lose the taxes from oil?
How are these big business neocons going to handle it when because of their own greed and refusal to change, the Japanese and others develop and start selling massive amounts of hybrids here? The oil companies will be obsolete, the tax money will dry up, the US car companies will be on their last legs and this country will be going into a Depression like we have never seen.
Sound far fetched? How much of our nation depends on the auto industry, in one form or another? And those companies have how many hybrid ideas?
Meanwhile, Toyota, Honda and soon Nissan and Mitsubishi have Hybrids that can not stay on the lot. They are moving very fast and there are waiting lists to buy them.
But the US auto industry wants to blame the workers pensions, retirement benefits and so on. While if they had just 10 years ago started using those patents for non-gas cars, or worked on mass producing hybrids or other form of car they'd still be industry leaders and not dying dinosaurs blaming the workers.