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Originally posted by RawAlex@Feb 26 2003, 01:29 PM
the continued increase in demand for fossil fuels in the US (131 billions gallons last year, if numbers I have read are correct) - is something that continues to put the western world at the feet of these tin pot dictators...
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Hmmm... WE put the western world at the feet of them ???
hmmm.. sounds like the REST of the western world doesn't have much to offer, do they.....
How WE (the U.S.) is RESPONSIBLE for the ENTIRE western world is beyond me.....
I thought most of the many nations that make up the WESTERN WORLD were fairly autonomous and did their own thing....
The U.S. dependence on Oil is the U.S.'s problem, thank you very much.....
We have a history of taking care of our own problems, sometimes the right way, sometimes the wrong way.....
But, unlike OTHER members of the Western World that exist in this hemisphere, we don't rely on someone else to fight our battles for us......
I remember when I was stationed in Bermuda. We would get ships from all over the world in there...
Most countries ships were so pretty and shiny.... Canadians would come in with all their brass shined up, looking all spiffy and new..... The same for the Norwegians and tyeh Swedish.....
The U.S. ships were rusty, breaking apart... dirty hulks.....
Got talking about it with some folk and asked "how come our ships look like shit while the rest of em that come in here are so pretty?", The answer given to me was "Well, we actually use our ships, we don't bring them into dry dock just because it's raining"