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To: Yogizuna who wrote (7975)	5/31/2001 5:51:07 PM
From: Bicycle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Trade can bring prosperity. Any and all nations choosing self-sufficiency in everything have suffered economic disaster. Any nation depending on the unfair exploitation of their neighbours is a nation headed for trouble. Any nation that encourages its people to squander finite resources is inviting disaster. In a democracy, the policy of the nation is the result of the cumulative decisions of its population. If each citizen chooses to drive a fuel thirsty vehicle and chooses a lifestyle requiring them to travel great distances regularly, then those citizens will form a nation dependent on fuel. A citizen can vote at the ballot box and at the auto showroom. The air-conditioning salesman and the campaigning politician are both attempting to determine our energy needs: we decide. When I want to assign blame for the current mess, I stand before a mirror. Bye4Now, FD.

To: Yogizuna who wrote (7975)	5/31/2001 7:01:35 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Well, oil/energy is a national security issue, which is something that Clinton/Gore never paid much attention during their stint in office. I don't like having US foreign policy held hostage to a strategic commodity held by a bunch of unstable authoritarian and/or religiously zealous regimes. That said, I see nothing wrong with MUTUAL dependence such as their selling us oil, while purchasing an equivalent amout of critical goods that they can't produce for themselves. This forms an international symbiosis that ties these nations together economically. It's going to be REAL interesting to observe how the new Democratic senate handles the energy issues left behind by slick willie. Maybe they'll cry for Bush to release more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve... Democratic policy seems to always involve "pushing on a string" and manipulating markets. Hawk