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To: Sam Raven who wrote (125)	10/16/2001 5:37:09 PM
From: schrodingers_cat	Read Replies (1) of 280

You make some excellent points: >We don't live in a vacuum, oil we don't use will go somewhere else in the world and we will compete with those folks. This is exactly what I meant when I referred to the "world oil market", and it's a pity that many "energy independence" folks don't understand the consequences of that. In order to be truly energy independent, we would have to cut ourselves off from the world oil market. Even if we did that, what would happen to our allies in Europe and Japan? If their economies were hurt by trouble in the Mid-East, then that would hurt us too. If Japan or China built-up their militaries so they could take our place in the Mid-East, then that might be bad for us too. US disengagement from the region would cause many troubles. I do think though, that some substantial efforts to reduce our use of Mid-East oil send a valuable political message to the region:" Allah may have put the oil under your feet, but it is the consuming countries that make it valuable .How would you like it if we found a way to make it less valuable?"

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