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To: dangerdoc
You can buy Arab oil refine it and put it in your tank. In the mean time, your money leaves the country adding to the trade deficit and adds to the terrorist economy. Or on the other hand you can buy good old, home grown American Coal, burned in a power plant and sent to your home via the power lines. The money stays in the country and creates jobs.

First, we do not get the majority of our imported oil from the MidEast. Check your facts.

Second, you wish to trade free-market oil for government regulated electricity. Not smart.

You can place your transportation in the hands of Pelosi and Kennedy, but I won't.

140 posted on 01/01/2007 2:20:03 PM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party will not exist in a few years....we are watching history unfold before us.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

I don't have the numbers in front of me but this is not a difficult issue to work out. The oil market is a liquid market. Inputs go into the market, buyers buy and the price is set based on supply and demand. The petroleum will be shipped to the market in the most cost effective mannor, meaning that we get more of our oil from Mexico, Venezuela and Canada (not that any of them have been acting like our friends). Even if the molecules do not physically come from the Muslims, our demand puts dollars in their pocket as surely as if you put it in an envelope and mailed it to them.

You seems to have a concern about socialistic electrons. If you don't mind dumping your money into the despotically driven oil market, you shouldn't mind spending it to get out of the regulated electrical market. About a $30,000 investment can get you off the grid for good, my brother-in-law has been off the grid for the last 5 years. Add a few more panels and a windmill and you can either charge up your electric car or make Pelosi and Kennedy buy your excess.

BTW do you have any idea how much money you send to governement when you fill your gas tank. Your transportation is in their hands now. They can jack up their taxes, regulate the octane mandate that chemicals be put in or taken out without your say-so. They can tell you what you can drive on the road and what you can't. They can take your car off the road for being too old. They can also take you liscense to drive it they don't like your behavior. Buddy, your transportation is in their hands now. Don't let the electric car discussion distract you.


220 posted on 01/01/2007 5:45:46 PM PST by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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