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

To: Srexley who wrote (578896)	5/27/2004 2:39:58 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"If the US supplied 100% of it's own energy" The demos won't allow that. Typical example short term thinking. (As if the Demos are responsible for high energy prices. Bush is the leader, he is responsible.) 1) We use an astounding 25% of the worlds energy output. No way could we supply all our own oil. Now alternatives and conservation could supply more but that is not in Bush's radar since he's A) ignorant B) an oil lobby whore 2) even if we could put wells overnight off the Malibu coast and in Brentwood and decimate Alaska's reserves, we'd run out in a New York year, the way some American hogs (like California's Steriod Governer) uses energy. Were would we be after we used up our reserve? So much for the theory that conservatives advocate a stonger America. Some really acute thinking here, if you are still playing in a sandbox. By the way I'm all for Oil rigs off the Malibu coast and in Brentwood. It's time the hogs lived with the crap they produce instead of putting it off on the poor all the time.

To: Srexley who wrote (578896)	5/27/2004 3:15:26 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Scott, Scott, Scott.... Re: You said we should stop buying oil from the middle east. That will hurt them, whether you think so or not. Not really very much, they'd just sell it somewhere else (Japan, China, etc.) Of course, if we became more efficient in our use of energy, and developed our own supplies and new technologies... then the world price of oil might drop a little bit (but it's more likely that it would just slow down the rate it's been INCREASING, because it would take a long time to become energy independent like the Apollo Project is calling for)... and by then world oil production would be declining. Still: BEST TO START THE JOB NOW! Re: I think the leaders that allow the hateful teaching would step it up a bit, Why? We wouldn't have so much need to muck-around in their affairs. Re: and you think they would become our friends. Only if they come to admire Democracy and Religious pluralism.... "If the US supplied 100% of it's own energy" Re: The demos won't allow that. Neither will the Republicans. It would take both pulling together like the Apollo Project to get it done. "the Middle East wouldn't 'starve' at all " Re: It would take a HUGE hit. If you don't think so you are dumber than I thought. So, all of a certain you are a BIG SUPPORTER OF WELFARE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST? (If they can't make it in the free markets --- the same as everybody else --- then they will have to reform their economies.) "1) Our national security would greatly improve." Re: I disagree, and you have nothing but your "feelings" to base this on. You are SO FULL OF IT! You think bending over backwards to the oil Kingdoms is a sign of 'strength'. Boy, are YOU and idiot! (You must REALLY LOVE giving it up to the Cartel!) Re: Again, starve them, and they would be even madder. Who's "starving them"????????? They have to make their own way in a free market, same as everyone else. If we can successfuly surplant oil in our economy (over MANY years), they will have plenty of time to adjust... and they'd better anyway, because it's going to run out one day. No need for us to provide them with welfare. "2) Our trade deficit would decline." Re: Maybe. Who cares? Anyone with at least half a brain should care. Oil import costs are one of the biggest components of our structural trade deficit. Re: Why are you so greedy? EH? (It's called: PATRIOTISM!) Re: you don't seem to care about the plight of other nations. Eff 'em, right? Wrong. "3) None of our money would be diverted to supporting Middle Eastern fundamentalists anymore." Re: Bullcrap. Most of the financing of terrorism, and the fundamentalist Religious Madrassas comes from Middle Eastern oil money.