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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (230318)	2/23/2002 6:21:57 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"...how do we keep the rest of the world from using ME oil? " You keep missing the point, I'll restate: we don't The simple announcement of a brave gasoline retailer offering non-ME gasoline will have a revolutionary effect. Even before a single gallon is sold. It DOES NOT MATTER if a small or even a significant amount of purchases are made by other countries, or even some US consumers. This is not coercion, this is not an embargo. This is a revolutionary act: American consumers deciding whether or not to buy from countries that may support terrorism. The reason it is revolutionary is several-fold: 1) It will have a POTENTIAL effect the moment it is announced, and cause a panic, PR campaigns by ME countries and their US minions, including politicos who will come out of the wordwork, think-tanks, etc., who will tell us how terrible this is, unintended consequences, starvation, godlessness, changes in The Force, and whatever other crap they can come up with on short notice. 2) This will increase worldwide as other countries get wind of this. 3) The internal politics of these despotic countries will come under irresistable pressure, to either change in ways that the American consumer can agree with, or get thrown out by their own disatisfied populace. The idea of this being harmful is laughable. Taking the punch bowl away from the royals and despots will cause them to scream bloody murder, and the hired pimps here in this country as well, but will have a salutor effect worldwide, both economically, politically, and culturally, as a "broadband" effect, straight from consumers, to producers, unmolested by wealthy controlling intermediaries, who skim the profit and manipulate information as best they can.