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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: RetiredNow who wrote (17553)	5/4/2010 12:53:36 PM
From: TimF	3 Recommendations Read Replies (3) of 42652

OT If one estimates the cost of a barrel of oil from the Middle East, the US Armed Forces cost added in would drive it to about $2000/barrel. And if you add in the cost of Social Security to the cost of a stripper well producing 10 barrels a year, than those barrels cost over $60 billion a piece. Doing such cost adding isn't all that much more ridiculous than adding the cost of the US military to the cost of oil from the Middle East. At least the vast majority, and possibly as much as 100 percent of our non-war spending would still happen if the Middle East produced no oil. The war spending likely would have happened if we had found enough cheap American oil to be "oil independent", before the wars started. The cost of the US military simply isn't part of our cost of oil and should not be counted as such. And if it is counted that way (for not good reason) and you add the US military budget to the the cost for oil used by the US and you add in less than $100/bbl. If you factor in the cost of spills and such domestic oil probably costs $500/barrel or more. This is just insane. That cost estimate is what's insane.

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