[Dane]

And unless Bush wants to endanger the oil supply, he'll go along to get along

Oh what crap. Maybe you haven't seen this headline, that oil may go down to $10 a barrel. OPEC needs us more than we need them and with more Russian oil coming on line every day, OPEC has lost one of it's weapons.

[CubicleGuy]

Maybe you haven't seen this headline, that oil may go down to $10 a barrel.

And maybe you haven't seen the articles saying that Saudi Arabia is on the verge of falling completely apart. They've been paying protection money to the terrorists for years, in an attempt to keep the House of Saud in charge for a while longer. The terrorists, if they decide that Saudi Arabia is cooperating a little too much with Bush, can take some dynamite into the oil fields and quickly take out enough production capability to drive the price to $100 per barrel.

[cayman99]

Get a grip,Dane..Russia does not have the capacity to replace OPEC and the Caspian Sea oil is years from reaching the market in any volume. Now that Russia & the US have control of Afghanistan,the pipe line can be built. Iraq has more accessable oil than Russia,there is no support for attacking Iraq.

[Willie Green]

Maybe you haven't seen this headline, that oil may go down to $10 a barrel. OPEC needs us more than we need them and with more Russian oil coming on line every day, OPEC has lost one of it's weapons.

Big whooptie-do. OPEC oil, Russian oil, Mexican oil... what's the difference? It's still all imported.

U.S. Crude Oil Overview (1960-1996)
(in Quadrillion BTU)

	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1994	1995	1996
Domestic	14.93	16.52	20.40	17.73	18.25	18.99	15.57	14.10	13.89	13.74
Imported	2.20	2.65	2.81	8.72	11.19	6.81	12.77	15.34	15.63	16.24
Total	17.13	19.17	23.21	26.45	29.44	25.80	28.34	29.44	29.52	29.98
% Imported	12.8%	13.8%	12.1%	33.0%	38.0%	26.4%	45.0%	52.1%	52.9%	54.2%

YOU may like being dependent on imported oil.

I DON'T.

[Landru]

"OPEC needs us more than we need them and with more Russian oil coming on line every day, OPEC has lost one of it's weapons."

You nailed it.
Surely people didn't swallow the line this state visit by Putin's been solely about reduction of nuclear arsenals?

...brother.