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To: Keith Feral who wrote (147947)	10/19/2004 4:24:52 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

the obstruction of free market access to commodities like oil is a strategic issue of national defense. It is, largely because we've made it so. Ours is a hypocritical society - we protect nations which, had they not been major oil suppliers, we would decry openly. We've supped from the teat of foreign oil because for years we could - for no other reason. In the process we've become as dependent as any heroin addict. In a free market economy, the market decides a negotiated price between the buyer and the seller. The seller doesn't get to decide who he wants to sell. Perhaps, but the seller gets to decide how much he wants to produce. Think about that. Will it ever come to that? It may. Here's an off the wall idea: Perhaps the longer term goal of OBL is to expose just how far we will go to secure what, irrationally, we've come to believe is our birthright - a hugely disproportionate amount of the world energy display.