[Senator Pardek]

And another thing, the Gulf War was surely fought to protect the oil supply, which is quite different than spinning it as "protecting oil profits." This country has been more than willing to let oil companies go bankrupt because of low prices for oil, so the socialist crap about fighting for evil profits is just that.

Thank you. The third most important resource needed to keep this nation running, after water and air, is oil.

[Shermy]

Reads more like a plea for help - and relevance. A political idenity dissolving in face of facts which her students now have access to thru the internet. Still struggling to hang on to old prejudices. Soooo 9/10.

[Dog Gone]

Beer is probably a close fourth, but we haven't had to fight any wars to protect "beer profits", either.

[ThinkDifferent]

The third most important resource needed to keep this nation running, after water and air, is oil.

Right. And it's liberals who have done everything in their power to keep us dependent on foreign oil, with their opposition to drilling in the US and hysterical fear-mongering about nuclear power.

[max61]

Thank you. The third most important resource needed to keep this nation running, after water and air, is oil.

You must be slipping in your old age.

You can't eat oil, unless of course you've figured out some way to digest 5W-30. After air, water and food, human capital is what makes this country run, just like it did for 100 years prior to Rockefeller.

The only reason that we are addicted to oil, is because we are made to be. The oil cartel is no different that a drug pusher, just at a different level on the economic ladder.

---max