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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (71344)	12/7/2005 1:49:46 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

You are entitled to your opinions and I to mine. Let's agree to disagree! ----------------------- You are wrong in that the Germans had abundant supplies of oil and gas in WWII. At the beginning, yes. But, later on, after the Allies bombed their refineries out of commission and destroyed their storage depots, they did not have enough of it. As a consequence, they were forced to practise "Necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention" manufacture of synthetic gasoline by the Fischer-Tropsch process. But this process which utilized coal, in its early days, was inefficient, and it could not produce enough gasoline. So your argument that Standard Oil gave them lots of gasoline from South America sounds like hogwash to me. If true, it makes Standard Oil (and the US?) complicit, in a sense, in the holocaust incineration/cremation of the Jews. Don't believe all that Wikipedia tells you about the holocaust. I believe they wrote that piece to pander to compulsive believers and to help them sell more of their W'pedias. Quite understandable! But it's not being responsible in presenting a balanced opinion. .