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To: tobyhill

Even though drivers in the US have cut consumption rather dramatically, we hear the same excuse from the oil pit every day: It’s a matter of supply and demand and China needs so much oil for its economy.
Okay...we are China’s main customers. It would be smart to totally boycott everything Chinese, thus helping to bring down their economy and their need for oil.


4 posted on 06/26/2008 4:58:35 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: kittymyrib
It would be smart to totally boycott everything Chinese

How would we fill our Wal-Mart carts with useless, plastic objects?

7 posted on 06/26/2008 4:59:55 PM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: kittymyrib

Then they’d dump the 1.x trillion dollars they’ve collected from our various debts and we’d be looking at even higher price increases.


16 posted on 06/26/2008 5:05:14 PM PDT by underground
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To: kittymyrib

Okay...we are China’s main customers. It would be smart to totally boycott everything Chinese, thus helping to bring down their economy and their need for oil.


A good strategy, except China is one of the largest buyers of U.S. debt. They stop buying our t-bills and our economy crashes...

It’s a global world. Best get used to it.


19 posted on 06/26/2008 5:06:44 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: kittymyrib
I like the idea of boycotting, but it's not so easy. In my rural area, Walmart has driven out some (dare I say - much) of the competition. I can tank up on $4 gas and drive the 30 miles to the nearest mall. And I do when feasible. And when the Walmart was opened here it prided itself on Made in America goods. Now we jokingly play the 'find the Made in America goods' game.

And when our media talks about oil prices, they mention our US greed and gas guzzling vehicles. I don't hear the stories about China's need. Unfortunately. We are China's main customers, and now they have us over the coals, so to speak. Thanks, Bill.

57 posted on 06/26/2008 8:26:20 PM PDT by fortunecookie (Communism/socialism has failed millions, a lesson lost on too many.)
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