[zog]

--you have to remember. It's not only 'the saudis' but their american business partners in this whole being hostage to foreign oil deal with our foreign policies. We're going to continue to eat it from the middle east until those americans with their oil business there have little say at the highest levels of government.

And if anyone thinks I'm being hypocritical because I still drive and use gas, I do hereby state I would pay double at the pump right now for my gasoline if I could be assured directly at the pump that not one drop came from the islamic countries. I want my money spent and re-spent inside CONUS, not shipped to the middle east were it goes to buy advanced weaponry for the islamics. The deal is, we have no choice the way it is set up right now. You couldn't, as an end user consumer, boycott or have a free market choice if you wanted to, we're STUCK with those bozos for the next buncha years.

And waiting in the wings is china, the next big public policy economic mistake that will finally bingo with people. And it won't be any little tiny wussy coupla buildings hit either, nope, try hundreds of thousands if not millions dead.

Short term profits, 'free trade" with the enemy= a few more millionaires and a lot more long term national in-security.

IMO. obviously.

[Nachum]

I sympathize with your sentiment. My only observation is that our whole economy is dependant on oil as well. Our goods and many services would also cost much more. It would certainly have a large negative effect on the economy. Maybe even catastrophic.