checksixx wrote:
bluewolf20 wrote:
What makes this worse is that both Chavez and Ahmadinejad sabre rattle every couple of weeks to force the oil price up. They both know they could not survive a conflict with the US but the underlying tactic is to damage the US by high oil prices and get rich in the process. With the US exporting $400 billion for oil each year it is working which will be a greater threat to the F-22 than any other aircraft.
The real crime is right here at home...we get VERY little oil from the Arabian area and little oil from Chavez.
Checksixx, of course: Saudi Arabia and Venuzeula are 2nd and 4th biggest import sources of oil. In relative terms today, it would be a catastrophic blow for US to lose that, just as it would be for them to lose it.
Hence the biggest issue for the US over the past 5 years at least: Energy policy/security.
As far as long-term US plans go, I would argue that the main crime domestically is that we still do not have a National Strategic plan to drastically reduce dependence on oil (whether domestically or foreign produced).
To simply say we can increase 2-3 million net bbl/day production over the next 10 yrs is not a national Energy policy. It's playing Russian roulette, sorry.
And only a mobilized national transformation will correct the 'crime.'
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