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To: slacker711 who wrote (48031)	2/5/2008 3:55:31 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541326

I'm generally against government intervention, but I suppose I don't oppose any basic research in this area. But most proposals go far beyond expanding basic research funding. I can guarantee you that if Iran was making all of its money selling PS3's instead of oil, we would stop purchasing PS3's. If Iran sold PS3s we might sanction Iran, and buy X-box's instead, but if Iran produced something else besides oil where there wasn't an easy substitute but there was high demand than I doubt we would stop buying it, and except if its necessary and sufficient to avoid either war, or a nuclear armed Iran (and I don't think it would be either necessary or sufficient) than I don't think we should stop buying "Iranian PS3's" or whatever they produced. According to Department of Energy 2006 data ( eia.doe.gov ) the US imported 5,517,000 barrels of oil from OPEC countries and 12,390,000 barrels total. Do you think if we reduced our use by 5.517 million barrels per day, or even 12.39 mbpd that we would import zero from OPEC? I don't.