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To: geode00 who wrote (183736)	3/19/2006 5:14:58 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<The argument originally started as a simple explanation why Iran, or another other nation, would wish to trade their natural resource for foreign currency, goods and services from other countries rather than consuming all of their natural resources internally.> Good, let's stick with a focused matter. Namely Iran and nuclear bombs, gas for export or internal consumption, and nuclear power stations. I know this will be bamboozling, but Iran exporting gas to buy an imported nuclear power station, while paying $billions to build a vulnerable pipeline to export gas to India, is like a perpetual motion machine. To use a slightly more extreme example, would you think it would make sense for Saudi Arabia to build an oil or gas pipeline through Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to India and use that money [India would give them money for the gas or oil] to buy a nuclear power station to produce electricity in Saudi Arabia? Suppose the USA threatened to blow them up if they did it, would you still think it worth the cost? Wouldn't it be easier, aka cheaper, to build an oil-fired power station in Saudi Arabia, forget the pipeline through several politically unstable countries, and build a nuclear power station in India? Or, to make it even clearer, how about North Korea? Would it be more economic to build a nuclear reactor in North Korea and a thermal station in Saudi Arabia, or swap the power stations around and build a gas pipeline from Saudi Arabia across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, over the Himalayas, across China and up to North Korea? And, if Saudi Arabia builds the nuclear reactor, the USA will bomb it. So, where does that make the economics lead to? Mqurice