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To: Phsstpok
We don't buy anything from Iran, but if Iran's oil is taken out of the overall pool then those that do buy from them will be competing with us for the oil that is left and that will drive up the price. Thus we don't want Iran to start using their oil as a "tool of statecraft."A very clear statement of this important issue. My question, though, was a direct result of Obama's contention that we send millions to Iran to purchase their oil, which I thought to be incorrect, and we need alternative sources of energy so that we don't have to do this any longer.
1,000 posted on 01/29/2006 12:46:40 PM PST by Bahbah (An admitted Snow Flake and a member of Sam's Club)
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To: Bahbah
My question, though, was a direct result of Obama's contention that we send millions to Iran to purchase their oil, which I thought to be incorrect, and we need alternative sources of energy so that we don't have to do this any longer.

I missed that. In that case Obama is wrong. If he were to modify his statement to say we send millions (or, more likely, billions) ot the islamic states in the Middle East for their oil, then he might have a point. However, that is one of the prime arguments behind lifting the ban on exploration in ANWR and off of our own coasts, such as the areas off California and Florida.

By "alternative sources of energy" he probably means the fantasies of powering the world with solar cells and windmills, but his friends the Kennedy's object to the windmills (in their back yard) and solar cell production creates horrible toxic run off of things like Galium Arsenide. Not nice. Then his friends like Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer are blocking oil exploration off the coast of California, so we're screwed on all fronts. Of course, Jeb Bush is doing his bit to block oil exploration off the coast of Florida, but I don't think that he is doing it out of conviction, just political necessity.

Sad, isn't it? We need to light up 1,000 more nuclear power plants in order to cut down on pollution (and global warming, if such a thing exists), but his party is owned, lock stock and barrel, by the econazi's and he can't say that. He just dances around the edges with stupid and ineffective slogans instead of actually addressing the problem.

1,010 posted on 01/29/2006 1:08:42 PM PST by Phsstpok (There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
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