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To: RetiredNow who wrote (3680)	12/30/2008 4:13:43 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

The point you continually choose to miss is that our government subsidizes the cost of gas and oil, You continue to assert that all US military activity in the Mid-East is solely to subsidize the cost of oil and gas and I think that is incorrect. Certainly it is an element of our foreign policy there, but we also have a duty to upholding regional peace and stability EVERYWHERE, not just in the Mid-East. That's why we were "subsidizing peace" in Somalia, as well as S. Korea and Japan. We also subsidized peace for 50 years in Europe. And in Iraq, we were carrying out United Nations directives, set in place in 1991, and reaffirmed in 2002, to restore peace and regional stability in the face of Saddam's aggression and intransigence. You might find it a convenient co-incidence that it involved major oil exporting countries and claim it as an act of subsidization of oil, but from my perspective it's irrelevant to the issue of regional security and preventing aggression. As for the GX, and Pickens, I would agree with you. So now ask yourself why NG technology isn't being pushed as an alternative to the same degree that other technologies are? Hawk