Posted on 08/12/2008 10:13:20 AM PDT by Renfield
our oil is pretty much sucked dry.
No, it isn’t.
i was talking about europes oil reserves not american.
i admitted that the US has oil reserves.
ok i admit america has oil resources but europe? our oil is pretty much sucked dry.
Also on Russia's chess board is their support of Iran and Iran's work toward a nuke. Israel, and the US, are setting the board for an attack on Iran's nuke facilities. And it's a good bet that some sort of attack will take place To which, Iran will respond by shutting down the Straight of Hormuz depriving Europe and others oil passing through the Straight.
Putin set the Georgians up by supporting S. Ossetia and getting them to stir things up knowing the Georgia would respond. Georgia does and Russia rides to the rescue and gains control over the oil pipelines from the Caspian making Europe evermore beholden to the Russians for oil and gas.
The environuts and the dems have almost shut down new oil drilling and refining and we, too, have grown dependent on foreign oil, and are vulnerable to Iran's and Russia's threats should Iran's nuke facilities be attacked.
So, do we allow Tehran to develop a nuke? Do we stop them or help Israel? With at least temporary control over the pipelines, Russia, alone and through its ally Iran, have a lot to say about it, buying Iran more time while they buy more Russian arms.
Assuming an attack on Iran will happen, at worse, Russia loses a chess piece, Iran, but will benefit from our having to clean up the Iranian nuke mess. Plus, they should rake in a lot of money from oil and arms sales in the aftermath while Putin looks like a strong leader to Russians and a friend to allies. All of these events will make taking Ukraine back much easier.
I believe that austrian was talking about Europe's oil reserves. I think the U.S. is in pretty good shape, comparatively speaking (we just need to introduce certain politicans to some hot tar, feathers and a rail).
Personally, I think that Putin timed this perfectly.
Red Dawn Redux is supposed to come out soon, isn’t it?
(/sarc)
Kind of ironic though, No?
“NATO dissolves, The US stands alone!”
If anybody thinks that was an accident or incompetence I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Alternative energy? A new tire gauge for everybody?
How come “life is what happens while you’re busy making plans” only applies to me. It’s a great plan, but all has to fall just right. If we get a copy of the map, let’s just derail the little bugger before he gets to the Emerald City.
Of course, that makes us the “Wicked Witch,” but at the moment, I don’t have a problem with that.
The MSM in the U.S. is going to do a better job than the Russian press of covering up that fact.
Sad to say we're in an even worse position energy wise now than we were then.
Hello, Congress. Is anybody home?
What the heck, Bush causes hurricanes so I guess we can blame him for 30 years of Congressional graft and incompetence.
Uh, nevermind.
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