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To: reluctantwarrior
Too bad your Momma didn't pay for Hooked On Phonics.
2 posted on 02/20/2006 11:57:13 AM PST by WardMClark (Semi-Notorious Political Gadfly)
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To: WardMClark

IBTZ?


6 posted on 02/20/2006 11:58:20 AM PST by jdsteel ('nuff said.)
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To: WardMClark

Wow such cutting sarcasm from an unemployed english teacher


7 posted on 02/20/2006 11:58:24 AM PST by reluctantwarrior (Strength and Honor, just call me Buzzkill for short......)
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To: WardMClark

I don't mind so much the poor spelling and grammar as the utter lack of any knowledge of economics.

Oil is what you call a "fungible" commodity; in essence, this means that once it's in you gas tank, it matters not one whit where it came from.

Put another way: if we were to completely stop buying arab oil, our gas prices would go up, but the arabs wouldn't suffer a bit: they would merely sell their oil to Europe, South America, Africa, etc.
Which, BTW, is where most of their oil goes now anyway.

So for no more gain than a bit of cheap symbolism, we'd be penalizing nobody but ourselves. This is the kind of thing the Dimocrats love to do, but we try to avoid.


17 posted on 02/20/2006 12:10:08 PM PST by Redbob (I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney than ride in a car with Teddy Kennedy!)
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To: WardMClark

I missed your answers to oil, fungibility, jihadi's using oil funds to kill fellow americans, are these all below your interest if I spell them correctly?


124 posted on 02/20/2006 7:46:00 PM PST by reluctantwarrior (Strength and Honor, just call me Buzzkill for short......)
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