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To: TimF who wrote (48018)	2/5/2008 2:30:19 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) of 541326

It's the exponential growth and crash of a deer population after initial plentiful food runs out. Don't you think that a substantial portion of our overseas military spending, bases, and wars are to safeguard oil supplies and oil routes? Alan Greenspan, arguably the ultimate insider, in his book says the Iraq war was mostly about oil. Is he wrong? Do you think we would have intervened in Iraq, if it had no oil and was not in the heart of the oil rich Middle East? The Iraq war cost us a trillion and counting plus thousands of lives lost and destroyed. That's a small fraction of the subsidies we are paying for oil. OPEC's internal oil subsidies, which we so readily ridicule, pale in comparison to our own hidden oil subsidies.

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