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To: TimF who wrote (307726)	10/26/2006 7:22:16 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (3) of 1571468

re: don't think our oil use would be likely to shrink rapidly enough to dwarf a 15% increase in China's oil. Maybe, maybe not. If we eventually decrease our usage by 60% that would be a 12,000,000 barrel a day decrease; the decrease would be almost double what China uses per day right now. And as the #1 consumer market, the rest of the world follows the US lead. You have to expect that they will adopt the same efficiency technologies, at the least slowing their growth if not decreasing their consumption. re: A very strong move would certainly have a major impact on ME's oil profits, but that still doesn't amount to changing the ME "back to being an impoverished desert with no oil money." And to the extent it does reduce the oil revenue it might destabilize the governments and produce more problems with terrorism rather than less. I thought the goal was regime change in the ME so democracy could flower? Isn't that why we have our troop there? Never mind, it's an entirely different argument: Is there more of a threat of terrorism if the ME is rich or poor? I would say the former, especially if you buy into the "clash of civilizations" crap.

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