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To: quehubo who wrote (56835)7/29/2004 7:43:27 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793914
 
Oil prices are set in a global market. Any interruptions in oil flow from the ME will cause the price of oil to rise.

Yes, but that was not Kerry's point. His point was that if we buy our oil elsewhere, however fungible the oil may be, then we will minimize contact with the Arabs. This is the point you quoted:

<<John F. Kerry is expected to call on the nation to support a multibillion-dollar project aimed at ending America's dependence on Middle Eastern oil as a way to reduce its entanglement with authoritarian regimes and the Islamic terrorists who are trying to topple them>>

That does not seem like an idiotic point to me. This point you're making now is about the price of oil. That is another matter entirely. Had Kerry been talking about dependency on ME oil, yes, that would be idiotic. But what is idiotic about the point he made that you said was idiotic? I still don't follow that.
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