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We can get oil anywhere
The oil thing really is quite overdone.
Noticed what the price of a barrel is lately? It just spiked over $2.08 US, currently trading at $55.62 pb in NYC:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/13/mar....reut/index.htm
War in the Gulf makes oil more expensive, it doesn't somehow lower oil prices or give the US or anyone else "free oil." That's simply not how these things work -- OPEC exists for a reason, no small part of which is to guarantee flow...
It's become the catch phrase of the trendy, anti-war crowd to think war in the Gulf is launched so Yanks can spend 5 cents less per gallon at the pumps. Just ain't so:
1 US gallon = 3.785 litres
For those in the know, the above means, on average, that we in Canada pay damn near double what the Yanks do for the same amount of gas. I think the Yanks are currently paying about ~$1.80 or so on average for a gallon -- and they're complaining about high prices at the pumps? Can you imagine the hysteria it would cause in the US if they paid over $3 a US gallon as we typically do?
So... why aren't we leading a petrol-revolution, or a war in the Gulf? Seems we'd have more justification.
'Cause oil isn't all that important -- we can get it anywhere. If oil was the motive/objective, why aren't we at war with Saudi Arabia, or Bahrain? (or any of a hundred candidates who couldn't put up any real resistance?)
...Because I'm afraid the reality of the situation is quite larger and more grand-strategic than one country's oil, when a hundred oil-bearing countries exist (one of which is Canada, which exports millions of barrels -- seen what's been going on in Alberta and off the coast of Newfoundland lately?), that are already friendly to the West in general, each with billions of barrels in reserves waiting to sell us (especially the merchants of the Third World, who ain't got much of anything else to sell). 
Don't be fooled that this is over oil -- that idea is too ludicrously simplistic.
Cheers,
-Noble.
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Last edited by TheNobleEu on Jun-14-2005 at 03:54
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