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To: AScreenNameForOnePost
"If the US stops buying oil, from any country for that matter, does that country have the right to invade us ?"

If everyone in your neighborhood stops buying from the local supermarket, do they have the right to send the cops down and force everyone to hand over some cash?

If we have the right to stop buying Venezuelan products, they have the right to stop buying ours. That's it. Also, remember *we* are not buying Venezuelan oil - privately owned oil companies are, in hopes of selling it to *us* at a profit.

136 posted on 04/09/2006 5:34:56 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Delicacy, precision, force)
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To: Sam Cree
If everyone in your neighborhood stops buying from the local supermarket, do they have the right to send the cops down and force everyone to hand over some cash?

If we have the right to stop buying Venezuelan products, they have the right to stop buying ours. That's it. Also, remember *we* are not buying Venezuelan oil - privately owned oil companies are, in hopes of selling it to *us* at a profit.

Plus, oil is fungible.

If we stop buying it, someone else will start. It's a worldwide market. There will be shortage of other willing buyers.

165 posted on 04/10/2006 3:59:46 AM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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