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To: Batrachian

“There is one big benefit to dependence on foreign energy: When theirs runs out (and it won’t be soon), we’ll still have ours.”

Our money will run out first, long before their oil runs out.


20 posted on 12/09/2010 12:50:57 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: TexasRepublic
"Our money will run out first, long before their oil runs out."

True but irrelevant. Their oil is cheaper in the first place, and oil companies are multinational corporations. When we buy oil from Texas or Alaska, the money doesn't somehow end up back in the people's pocket, except in a very small way from taxation and fees. It ends up in the pockets of Exxon, BP and others. We're not like Saudi Arabia or Norway where the government owns the oil companies.

21 posted on 12/10/2010 4:44:25 AM PST by Batrachian (Barack Obama was elected because people thought they where voting on American Idol)
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