The United States would protect it's sources of strategic resources irregardless of who owned what.
Nearly 80% of ExxonMobil's reserves are not in the US. And their US reserves could be purchased by a foreign company, no differently than when BP bought ARCO's fields on the Alaskan North Slope.
12 posted on 10/01/2006 8:41:37 PM PDT by thackney
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