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To: epicure who wrote (62933)	5/2/2008 3:11:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 542655

If your story is accurate the military use isn't really a major factor in oil prices. "If they were a country, they'd be the 38th largest consumer of oil," "The combined branches of the American military burn through a whopping 340,000 barrels of oil a day" Compare to the US total of somewhere over 20 million barrels of oil a day, or world use of over 80 million barrels per day. The point is not that the military doesn't use a lot of oil (it clearly does), but that it doesn't use enough to be a major factor in the world oil markets. Its something like a third to three eighths of a percent of world use.

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