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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (95068)	4/21/2003 7:36:56 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Do you have some proven reasons for your opinions here, or links? Including how you arrived at the " hundreds of billions of dollars" .... Also, could you expand on how and what you mean "if we relied 100% of domestic energy sources...." Exactly what would you think would that entail...? These people have been fighting and killing each other for over 2,000+ years...It seems very much like watching a movie of that time, with many of the same reasons for conflict. Except, the "movie" is real life today. Do things ever change? The reasons oil looks cheap, is because much of the cost has been externalized. Garrisoning the oil fields is a cost of reliance on imported oil. If we relied 100% of domestic energy sources, we would not have had to fight the two wars against Iraq, or the war on Afghanistan, and 9/11 would not have happened. The total cost for all that, plus all the domestic security expenses, runs into the 100s of billions.

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