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To: expat_panama
My point stands. Your 14,000 barrels a day is as good as next to nothing compared to the other totals listed. How much are we selling to them?

So you don't even have a "net" number.

And further, since your numbers are deminimus, your point was effectively demolished in the previous argument you made.

Furthermore, you also don't know what 'price' they are selling at, either. High spot oil prices? Considerably higher than their Iranian oil suppliers price no doubt.

So the argument for our getting lower prices at the pump...would appear to be wishful thinking on your part.

39 posted on 03/22/2006 10:39:31 AM PST by Paul Ross (Hitting bullets with bullets successfully for 35 years!)
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To: Paul Ross
"My point stands."

We're going around so much that I had a little trouble remembering what the 'point' was, so here's what we got (tell me if I missed something):

29  China, on the other hand is ...  ... content to expend $195 billion annually...they're own official statements...just to keep their currency pegged. And they use their other powers of communist tyranny to keep wages at slave levels...   32  If Chinese slave labor is selling us oil below cost and reducing our bills at the pump, then I say it's not a problem that needs to be fixed by higher import taxes.   30    they aren't selling us oil....   37   We're importing 14,000 barrels of oil per day from China (here).

I still don't see how higher import taxes on Chinese exports like oil is going to either help us or rescue the oppressed slave laborers.  The only thing I can see is that import taxes on Chinese oil will cost me money.

40 posted on 03/22/2006 11:09:56 AM PST by expat_panama
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