please tell me, if this war is a war for oil, where in the heck is the oil? i don't know if liberals get their gas for free, but i'm paying over $2.50 a gallon. it seems to me if it were war for oil we would be swimming it!
2006-12-27 17:25:16 · 11 answers · asked by hairpoor 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
that is the knee-jerk reaction of some of the idiot media. they aren't really connected to anyone. kind of like my weird cousin, who i use to start a riot at the 13-th annual barn dance. to him i say, i'm with you. to other's, i say, who.
2006-12-27 17:35:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oddly enough, there is plenty of oil right now. There is not nor has there been a supply problem except for New Orleans and the surrounding area for a very short period of time immediately after Katrina. Have you went to the gas station and found that there was none to buy? Me neither. The OPEC nations are actually cutting production because there is too much oil in reserve right now. Prices at the pump are beginning to go up again. The oil is there all right, but it 's not for us to use. It's for the big corporations, oil sheiks, and politicians to sell to us and make a killing on it. One day we will all be driving electric cars.
The sooner, the better.
2006-12-28 03:48:36 · answer #2 · answered by carguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate to tell you all this, but the war was never about the oil (at least for the U.S.). The Iraqi oil industry is nationalized, so unless the U.S. convinces the new Iraqi government to give up its primary source of income, we would never get the oil for free or at below market cost. The war was about getting Saddam Hussein out of Iraq, plain and simple.
By the way, less than 1/4 of oil used in the United States comes from the Middle East.
2006-12-27 17:44:45 · answer #3 · answered by oldironclub 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just a few points about the importance of good access to oil. When oil rich Kuwait was attacked by Iraq, the US defended. One of the main reasons Japan attacked Pearl Harbor was because the tight embargoes against it was shutting off it's oil imports. Also american warships patrolling the middle-east waters needs ports to refuel - the USS Cole was attacked while refueling at Yemen, later after being repaired (and security matters dealth with) it went back on patrol and refueled at Bahrain. Foreign oil and ports are needed and likely will be gotten one way or another.
Pearl Harbor source: 'Awake at Dawn' book
2006-12-27 18:51:15 · answer #4 · answered by sunshine25 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Predicting what the topics of the following day are going to be is continually confusing, yet water is a commodity that any one desires, there is not any change and turning out to be inhabitants concentrations are making the accessible elements of water extra not person-friendly. From the Aral Sea, to the Danube, to the Colorado River, the Yellow River, the Amu Darya, the Tigris River, the Jordan, all of those rivers are operating decrease. besides the indisputable fact that the important difficulty will actual be the drawdown of the aquifers, the underground swimming pools of water that farmers are pumping as a lot as irrigate their flowers. Irrigated flowers multiply the quantity of nutrition you may develop with the help of a huge quantity, and at the same time as those farmers empty the aquifers, their nutrition production will plummet and nutrition expenditures will skyrocket. sounds like a respectable reason behind a conflict.
2016-12-01 06:13:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the war in the Middle East is for the oil, but the winners are only the big politicians, the people must pay their whims....
2006-12-27 17:58:52 · answer #6 · answered by Gabrio 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To get hussein out of Iraq? I had no bloody idea he was still there, last I heard it was in 30 days he was going to be hanged. Wow who'dve ever thought it was still about Hussein being there. Of course it's all about the oil, America wants to control all the oil and then screw itself for the service. Anyone who believes otherwise, obviously has no idea what ther're talking about.
2006-12-27 21:41:35 · answer #7 · answered by y2kguyarea51 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man you are naive. Do you really think this is our country? Even IF there is a war for oil, they will just be stealing it so they can sell it to YOU anyway.
The Capitalist Elite own the United States, the rest of us are just employees and customers.
2006-12-27 17:35:47 · answer #8 · answered by makavelllii 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The war is for rich people who are Bush's friends to make money, plain and simple. They end up with the oil and the money. He makes me ashamed to be a republican
2006-12-27 17:38:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no ,this war isn't only for oil,this war is for forbid's Iran of USA.and USA want get often country in middle east.so USA will big powerfull in all the world.but it can't.
2006-12-27 18:12:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋