30 Years Of Stupidity, Gas

We're still sending foreign aid to those OPEC countries...does that make any sense to anyone but a Congressman?

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Originally posted by daybeggar:
We're still sending foreign aid to those OPEC countries...does that make any sense to anyone but a Congressman?

Here is a list of which countries receive our foreign aid.
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/politics/us-foreign-aid.htm

I doubt if we will see $2 gas again.
You are correct tho, regardless of the cost at the pump, the price we are paying in virtual slavery to oil producing countries , plus the cost to the planet of continuing pollution is horrible.
We must rebuild (or actually now build) our transportation infastructure and think about other ways to get around without using so much oil.

None of the countries listed belong to OPEC.

OPEC Nations -- Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Angola, Venezuela, and Ecuador. I believe Ecuador, Nigeria and Angola receive some foreign aid.

Just in time to start selling those surplus big suv's overcrowding the lots down the street!
Remember what was said by our current prez, something like- buy yourself a suv, you deserve it!(then the gas started headin' up!)Rember

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Originally posted by Howard Roark:
None of the countries listed belong to OPEC.

Yea, kinda inconvenient when your argument is that we should cut off foreign aid to the oil rich OPEC countries.

We haven't built a Refinery in 30 yrs, that tells you that the oil companies want to keep the supply tight so the prices will stay high, if we had more oil we wouldn't have the Refinery capacity to Refine it, now we want to make Ethanol out of corn, Why? to make the price of everything associated with corn go up, you can make as much Ethanol from one stalk of sugarcane as you can 7 Ears of corn, they will tell you probaably that we can't grow sugar cane, we did when I was a kid, but that would make too much sense, unless the American people change out everybody in Washington and demand that they listen to the people instead of the 3500 lobbyists, that is 77 for each represenative and senator up there nothing will change and we will deserve what we get.

If you think military technology and military security under our umbrella is not aid then you don't understand much. When Kuwait dials 911...the telephone rings in the Pentagon. In December, Time Magazine reported we are spending $500,000.00 per minute in Iraq. Hello?????

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Originally posted by daybeggar:
In December, Time Magazine reported we are spending $500,000.00 per minute in Iraq. Hello?????

Yes, the exact reason we should get the hell out of Iraq ASAP.
That war is draining our country of it's financial resources. UBL stated that his goal was to destroy the financial base of the US. Bush is doing that for him.
We should elect a president and congress that has the goal of leaving Iraq ASAP, not 4 more years of W's destructive policies.
In addition, we should not be the rent-a-cop for the world. The Gulf War in the early 90's was a real coalition of NATO nations to rid an ally of an invading force. This current quagmire in Iraq had a "coalition of the willing" made up mostly of the US and Bush's lap dogs, the British, with other bullied countries providing a hand full of troops and support. Now, most of them are gone,and a lot of the British have pulled out, leaving only us to foot the entire operation. Dumb arrogant commander-in-chief with ulterior motives, and a rubber stamp congress without any balls to stop him.

XMan,
I'm with you on getting out of Iraq ASAP. I would issue every Iraqi a rifle and 500 rounds of .556 and leave this afternoon. Deal with whoever is left standing in a year.

I notice there were no Iraqis at Shiloh trying to keep us from shooting each other.