[realpatriot71]

People who say "no blood for oil" do not understand energy. Oil is the most precious commodity on the planet. Oil makes the world go round, and in order to keep our lifestyle in America, we better be willing to shed blood for oil.

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking.

A consumer-driven economy like ours is dependent on cheap, reliable energy. We had darn well better be ready to fight, or we'll fall back into a Dark Age.

I can remember when computers used a skyscraper floor of vacuum tubes to run and needed their own HVAC system to stay cool... yet today, a cell phone has as much processing power, and is as common as dirt. If we want to avoid falling back into those "good old days" we will have to defend ourselves.

[swampfox98]

we better be willing to shed blood for oil.

We wouldn't have to if the Republicans would stand up to the idiot liberals in this country and start drilling and refining oil right here. But no, the environmentalists, who are a minority, run the show.

[Spotsy]

People who say "no blood for oil" do not understand energy. Oil is the most precious commodity on the planet. Oil makes the world go round, and in order to keep our lifestyle in America, we better be willing to shed blood for oil.

I have an idea - let's use electricity for everything - it comes out of the outlets in my walls in endless supplies!!! /serious sarcasm

For those people who insist on believing that all US policy and action is geared toward OIL - ?! - I tell them to mentally replace oil with the world's food supply - would you fight to get your hands on some of that food? Oil is just as vital as food.

[maine-iac7]

we better be willing to shed blood for oil.

>>>>>>>>

remember the last frantic days of the Clinton admin?
One of his infamous acts was to run out to Utah, into the dessert, = without a never your leave to any officials in Utah, not even the Gov. - set up a card table with his hand picked photogs and signed away any drilling rights to the vast natural gas mines underneath = enough to supply us with nat. gas almost forever?
"For the Environment..." bulls---
He didn't wait until the last days in office to do this 'great deed."
He did it to block Us from yet another source of independent energy - same as they did Anwar - which, to develop, would take a tiny pin prick of the whole area.

[Havoc]

Oil is the most precious commodity on the planet.

Humans are the most precious commodity on the planet. It's just that some lose touch with reality when they start eyeballing greenbacks.

[ladyinred]

Great point, but it isn't PC to actually act like we need oil don'tcha know! We are instead supposed to pretend that our SUV's run on good deeds or something.

[quadrant]

Agreed. I always want to ask people who say "No blood for oil" what they would be willing to fight for.
And when you think about it, wars have been thought for far, far less important things than oil.

[38special]

Oil = Freedom