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To: quehubo who wrote (129539)	4/18/2004 10:34:32 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Oil stopped flowing from Iraq a decade ago. It's no big deal. A price rise would soon adjust for the complete loss of Iraqi supplies. There's lots of coal, gas, nuclear, photovoltaic, agricultural, wind and other energy supplies to satisfy everyone. Not to mention insulation, warmer clothing and cyberspace instead of roadspace or airspace, as alternatives to burning more fuel. Oil as a percentage of the world's GDP has shriveled over the decades. As a percentage of the USA's it's down dramatically too. Oil is a has-been. Oil was good to me, but I get no respect from the young guys now - they are into cyberspace. They don't even know where a dipstick is. Mqurice

To: quehubo who wrote (129539)	4/18/2004 10:44:08 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

News people have now entered the black-out phase of a political re-entry in a rarified atmosphere. Thats when all news gets sucked into a black hole and comes out , whether good or bad, flavored and distorted with party politics. While the truth remains trapped. This is some advantage for Kerry. Having not done anything significant in recent years( except perhaps vote for or against wars) he cannot be easily blamed for what goes on in the world. This temporary age of confusion should end in November and we can get on with considering what is best for the USA, instead of what is best for a Party member. We should be thankful that there are men of wealth, industry and power hanging out in Washington to be influential. These are the people who must plan years ahead, have assets invested, count on trade with other nations,and will do their best to act in preventing an economic collapse. Until they get nukes, terrorists cannot stop progress through military action. But they can destroy the West economically if we let them proliferate and gain success or power to be taken up by copycats wanting fame. Or if we act in such a way as to hurt our own causes or leave the ME oil suppliers vulnerable to civil wars and blackmail. Sig