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To: sea_urchin who wrote (9475)	12/28/2004 5:59:05 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20039

Re: That China is thirsty for oil and is doing whatever it can to get it does not preclude the US/UK's own aspiration for global, and especially Mid East, control of oil resources. OK, let's be clear here... Let's do a bit of semantics: when the US, together with its British auxiliary, barges into an oil-producing country and grants oil concessions to US/UK companies, that's a matter of CONTROL. The US is actually CONTROLLING --forcibly if necessary-- the oil business in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. However, when China is doing exactly the same thing --albeit peacefully-- the world over, that is, from Venezuela to Canada to Angola to... we can't talk of "control"?! China is merely "thirsty for oil" and "doing whatever it can to"... quench its thirst.... Let's get real: if China, that is, the fastest-growing gas-guzzling country on earth, is freely able to grab oil concessions, pipelines, sealanes, refineries anywhere it deems suitable --from Latin America to Africa to Central Asia-- THEN I don't see what the US is "controlling"! If the Iraqi quagmire is any guide, the US is LOSING control on Middle East oil --whereas China is GAINING control over major suppliers such as Canada and Venezuela... right in the US backyard!!! Gus