Do you think more Americans would support the war if gas was 1.32 per gallon?

Question

If we are going to invade a country can we at least let it be for selfish reasons? Americans like big cars and long road trips. That requires a lot of gas. Iraq has gas and we need it. Plus we're sitting on a half trillion dollar military. Yes, yes. I know it's wrong but I'm a Democrat and I would support this war if we could turn Iraqi crude into good ole American gasoline. Cheap too. I have a big SUV and it's a guzzla. But hell. I am completely opposed to invasion of an oil rich country while gas creeps up to 3.25 per gallon. I say pull the troops out now if that's the case.

Answer 1

I cannot speak for all Americans of course but I can speak for myself. The answer is no, war is just not good for living things, woman and children die in war and whole towns are destroyed. there are body parts all over the place and generally solves nothing. .

Answer 2

Some might, but there are many different factions within the ranks of the antiwar set.

Those who believe America is wrong no matter the justification. Remember that there were people against WWII even though we were attacked first by Japan.

Those who dislike the President

Those who don't accept the justifications presented.

Those who do not have the stomach for a continuing war effort and death involved.

And several other subsets

The current high gas prices are more related to the Iranian situation than the Iraqi. The supply is fine, the reserves are fine, and demand has not increased significantly. It is just market speculators taking advantage of the situation even though realistic facts do not support their position. In short, we could drain every drop of oil from Iraq, dump it into the American market and prices would still be high.

Answer 3

There is one way shut down all Muslim terrorism...Don't drive.
If we want to change the price of gasoline let them sit on a few hundred million barrels of oil for a couple of months. The price will drop so fast you won't believe it. Problem is...gas is like a drug...we can't stop.

I have a suggestion for the leadership of both parties.

Create a new SPACE RACE. Tell American business we want a hydrogen powered vehicle able to fill up any where by converting the infrastructure we have (gas stations) to hydrogen. We want the auto companies to 100% convert production to these vehicles and the oil companies to be the providers of the hydrogen. Offer 100 billion dollars in tax incentives as long as 50% of the vehicles on the roads of America are hydrogen powered by the year 2014. Then give another 50 billion in tax incentive to convert the remaining 50% before 2017. In ten years...eliminate 90% of the US need for ANY FOSSIL FUEL.

Now let the Muslims drink that black crap. NO MONEY, NO TERRORISM.

Now I am a conservative but that is the solution. It is no different today than the space race of the 1960's.

Answer 4

Most Americans support winning the war. However, a majority wants a different direction. Oil has nothing to do with the war right at the moment. Oil prices are more influenced by the situation in Iran than the war in Iraq. I say let gas go as high as it can. Americans will ditch guzzlers until gas gets down to manageable levels just like they did in 1979 during the Carter oil crisis. That was caused by Iran too.

Answer 5

I think gas prices are only a tiny component of the opposition to war. Even if gas was $1.32 a gallon, Americans would still be against the war because of:

1. The loss of life
2. The loss of billions upon billions of dollars
3. The untenable situation (uncontrollable sectarian violence)
4. The incompentent management (poor political and military decisions)
5. The Iraqis (local corruption, majority favor attacks on US troops)
6. The loss of international stature
7. Outrage at being deceived (anywhere on the continuum from faulty intelligence to exaggeration to outright lies)

Gas prices are small change in comparison.

Answer 6

No. I think that there would be less support for the war if gasoline was 1.32 a gallon. On the other hand if gasoline was 12.00 a gallon and the government admitted that wars and politics in the mid east are about cheap oil for the US instead of... uhhh well I've forgotten the official lie... but if there was high priced gasoline and it was proposed that the war would get the US very cheap gasoline there would be huge numbers of supporters.

Answer 7

I would still support the war in Iraq even if gas were free or $5.00 per gallon, since one has nothing to do with the other. The speculators on Wall Street are the ones with a huge hand in gas prices.

Answer 8

I think the most important thing now is that we get our people home safe. The price of gas is going to go up no matter what because it is controlled by governments other than ours. So, we need to put a plan in place that brings our troops home soon and we need to find a way to make our own cheap fuel source such as E85...

Answer 9

the region interior the USA of a isn't a furnish of crude. we've an outstanding form of crude at a honest marketplace fee. the region is subtle product. regulation is so important, that oil businesses are restricted in scope to economies of scale production. extra, we've not outfitted a refinery in very almost 40 years now, yet we've quadrupled our gas intake interior the perfect 40 years. apparently, oil as concerning fee of crude is decrease now than it became interior the ninety's. If we utilized an same ratio we paid interior the ninety's to todays marketplace, then we may be paying about 3.60-3.80 in accordance to gallon at present. the answer's ordinary. get rid of all interior of reach and state regulation from gas. State and local governments can upload taxes to the sale, yet no longer emision or chemical regulation. the federal authorities on my own, lower than Article One, area 8, could regulate the emissions and chemistry of gas. Then, take the hardest emissions on the books and make it the classic nationwide. this can enable extra efficent production of the made from gas, and with free marketplace forces, stress down the point of marketplace equillibrum. Then, construct ten refineries, harvest American oil in Alaska, the pacific, gulf, and atlantic waters as well. contract with Mexico to reap their factors in our oil harvest, and stress the marketplace down decrease. replace the crude marketplace with the subtle product around the international, thereby aspect-stepping OPEC. also, get rid of oil speculators from the marketplace alltogether, with the intention to steer away from marketplace violence.

Answer 10

I would be against the invasion of any country just to take their oil, regardless of the price of gas here. We've known for 30 years that we needed to move away from petroleum. Why should another country pay the price for our inaction?

Answer 11

I think the important thing to recognize is that America imports the majority of its oil from Canada. Instead of paying trillions of dollars to invade Iraq, you could have cut a sweet deal with Canada for cheaper oil. We're always looking to make a trade (maybe one of those F-14's I'm always seeing pictures of).