>The oil has not somehow mysteriously migrated from beneath Iraqi >and neighboring soils over the past decade. And while the threat >to "American lifestyle" and "American jobs" is not and has not >been rolling at a full boil as it was in January of 1991, oddly >enough an intentionally heightened paranoia and panic is.
>To think that elected and appointed politicians do not calculate >the role of oil, its disruption and the consequences thereof when >calculating the plausability and acceptability of a second war in >the Gulf Region is not only folly, but lunacy. Oh, I think that I can agree with that. Over the last week we have had the scandal of the President's accusation about some in the Senate not sufficiently being concerned with the security of the American people. Yet, I've not heard anyone ask of the President why he thinks the present war, or the more specific proposed-one is warranted if we are not doing everything possible, on every front, to wage this war, or to strengthen our hand for proposed ones, or to prevent proposed ones by strengthening our hand via every means possible. And if we are to claim that we are doing everything possible to address the entirety of our weaknesses and problems in the Middle East then this has to include doing *everything* possible to end our dependencies on Middle Eastern Oil. I don't care what approach a member of the President's team takes to this question, they have not done nearly enough to do everything possible to end our Middle Eastern Oil Dependencies. I don't care what they think of Electric Cars, they are a *partial* way, however modest, to get the ball rolling on one front. They should be *tried* (harder) in the name of doing *everything* possible to end Middle Eastern Oil Dependencies. I don't care *what* they think of other alternative fuel efforts, they have *not* done nearly enough to get the country weaned from Middle Eastern Oil. This is just one front among many in this "war", but it is a silent and relatively neglected one. Some people just find it so much easier to speak of bombs and killing and drilling, exclusively, but can't find it in themselves to do *everything* possible to fight the war, even if it rubs them the wrong way. If the Bush Administration is willing only to do some things, the ones they find easy and ready at hand, and is willing to do comparatively *nothing* to wean us from Saudi Oil, then I think they should be criticized, *roundly*, for this failure. I happen to thing that if a country, any country, is home to a dictator who has shown a means and an inclination to kill millions of Americans, then I don't particularly care about the rest, he must be stopped. Immediately. But does George Bush? In addition to mounting Military campaigns, or proposing them, what has he done to stop us from buying oil from the folks who are doing so much to finance the war against us? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
